Being a father and raising good kids is an invaluable role in society.

As an immigrant in Sweden, I love that I had so much paid parental leave to be with my babies.

In the US, where I used to live, parental leave is a joke. There are generations of people brainwashed to believe fathers aren't involved in taking children to the park, changing diapers, and so on, and brainwashed to think that seeing single men in children's spaces is abnormal and suspicious.

I don't see what can be more empowering than letting both parents have time with the new life they brought into the world, and working together to watch the child grow up.

What career is going to give that level of satisfaction to men?

After the Butlerian Jihad, my backup plan is to work at the preschool.

My sister thought to be a stay-at-home mother until the kids started kindergarten, then changed her mind after a few years as she found it so frustrating and tedious. My wife and I looked forward to when our kids started preschool, so I could do work and she could take classes. Neither of us are defined by having kids.

There's a reason Valium was "Mother’s Little Helper" in the trad-wife home of the 1960s!