• The Decline of Western Civilization: "We're Pregnant" Edition

  Posted Thursday, June 04, 2009 1:13 PM | By Kerry Howley
  
  
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  Judith Leavitt has written a history of fatherhood, specifically about the evolution of male participation in the process of giving birth. In a review of the book in the Wall Street Journal, Jonathan Last reports the less-than-shocking news: The 20th century saw men becoming more and more involved with the process of pregnancy, and less and less commonly banished from the premises during the birth itself. This has culminated, Last explains, in “all manner of idiocy,” from fathers who videotape the birth to fathers cutting the umbilical cord... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!) 
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