Equality

 Discrimination is still a huge and ugly wrinkle in our society.

Among all the obvious ones that hit the news each day, there are still many that are misunderstood and under rated.

In our courageous war to set women free, we forget that some women and some men are willing to sacrifice their lives in order to give their children the best start possible. 

Choosing to do this is an act of love, but that doesn't make it easy.  If a man moved a woman across the country and left her alone twelve hours a day with young children in a community where she knows almost no one, we wouldn't be surprised if she felt alone, depressed and isolated.

If her spare time was spent trying to fix up her house, living without plumbing, dishwashers, washers, dryers for extended periods of time because she could only fix them when the children were in bed, we would understand why she was exhausted and tapped out both physically and emotionally.

If her husband made new friends at work, but she hadn't made any at the local parks and playgrounds because most of the people there were fathers, we would feel a great empathy for her.

And if she seemed to complain constantly about these conditions we would call her a nag, or a whiny woman, perhaps a woman who needed help.

Stay at home fathers are no different.