Fathers
I’m reading Good Morning, Merry Sunshine by Bob Greene. Published in 1984, it’s Greene’s daily journal covering the first year of his daughter’s life. The quotes on the cover hail it as some revelation that fathers have feelings and really do understand their wives. As I read, I think it’s actually showing that fathers don’t really get what their wives go through during the first year. Many of his entries express his shock or confusion when he does or says something that raises his wife’s ire. He barely reports on what his wife does when he’s not home and I get the sense she doesn’t have much of a life.
I would never claim fathers should or could empathize with their stay-at-home wive’s experiences. How can you if you haven’t had to take care of the baby yourself for an extended period (i.e., more than a couple hours)?
My final observation is that on a normal day, he will write half a page or a page centred around his daughter. But, if he has an exciting story about work, he suddenly writes pages and pages. Remind you of anyone in particular? 
**Update**: Isn’t this interesting. Bob Greene was fired from his newspaper (the Chicago Tribune) in 2002 after it was discovered that in 1988 he had some sort of sexual encounter with a 19 year old he had interviewed for a story. I’ll be reading the rest of his book in a different light.
**Update**: Chicago Magazine has a good article summarizing Greene’s career and life until 2003.