My father’s generation, born between 1900 and 1927, was not generally socialized to be engaged with their children. They were not in the delivery room nor the first to hold a newborn. My mother's female relatives or best friends, not my father, accompanied her to deliveries. The wife was supposed to dominate and control the children and the home. Father…
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