You aren’t a wuss for worrying about your kid or wanting to spend time with him or her. I think it’s admirable that outsourcing child care and raising a child to others bothers you. Where did we ever get the notion that hired help is what a child deserves?
What bothers me about the other side of the argument is that it seems to say the hell with the kids. As if their care and nurturing wasn’t worth anything in their view if and when it comes time to pay for it after divorcing. They see no value in caring for a child, nor do they understand that the child’s care most likely came along with compromising earnings, future job possibilities, retirement funding, etc. for the parent who stayed at home or cut corners to be the primary care giver. To me the wuss is the one who won’t cut corners to care for the child they created or whine that the other parent who did, doesn’t deserve a damn thing for doing so.
