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Oh Onion, we’ve been friends for more than a decade, but you simply must stop banging on the old stereotypes, it’s 2024 old chap .
I wish this was just an old stereotype (and for many men, it is) but you wouldn't believe how many men still come in my office with their family and their wives do all the paperwork and try to wrangle the kids while the dad plays on his phone and ignores them. I do see a lot more actively engaged dads but it's by no means universal, unfortunately.
My wife does the doctor work. Because I did the shopping, cooking, and dishwashing. You are just making judgments based on nearly zero information.
I don't think they're making judgments about every single dad, they're just saying that the stereotype of many fathers not interacting much with their kids holds true for more fathers than one might expect.
Soounds like validating a stereo type based off of 15 minutes of limited observation to me.