I think I’d love to start this article with a prayer which goes thus; may we all marry the perfect person for us. This does not mean the person will be perfect but I mean someone who we will be able to cope and build a family together.
Motherhood isn’t easy and fatherhood isn’t easy as well which means that parenthood isn’t an easy thing at all. The mother may be the one to take care of the kids at home but the father has a massive contribution as well.
I believe that two people carry a pregnancy. It isn’t just the lady or woman who carries a pregnancy. She carries it with her husband. I’m not saying they will share the pregnancy into two but I mean the man will be a part of the care taking process of the pregnant woman. If a man should be a part of the care taking process, if his wife eventually gives birth to the child, I feel he should also take a paternity leave.
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I will tell a story which will be an instance to buttress my point.
There is a woman opposite my shop. She’s heavily pregnant and can’t do a lot of things all by herself even though she’s being strong. Her husband comes to her shop very early in the morning to help her shade out some goods before he goes to work and if he is coming back from work, he stops by at the shop again to help her pack her goods inside.
He’s doing that because he does not want his wife to go through the stress of packing out and in of her goods.
When they get home, who knows if she will have the strength to cook? The husband may be the one to make the food as well and take care of their young ones.
Have you ever thought of what that man or how many things he is doing at a time?
He’s taking care of the home, shop and his workplace which means he’s doing three things at the same time.
Don’t you think such man needs rest? Don’t you think he should take a paternity leave to at least be with his family before he resumes work stress again?
And who says he will have the time to rest at home? He will be at home, supporting his wife to take care of the baby and also cleaning the house especially when they don’t have anyone who could help the wife do all of those things and even if they have, the husband still needs some rest.
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Also, while the wife is pregnant, the husband will be busy looking for funds to buy the baby’s needs before he or she is given birth to. His emotions will be swinging left and right and when it is time for his wife to give birth, he begins to get scared because he never can tell the condition his wife will be after labor. I mean a man going through that kind of emotional stress. Don’t you think he needs rest, I feel he needs enough rest.
