For meals where it’s not possible to separate out the meat and non-meat portions, there are PLENTY of tasty easy-to-make vegetarian options that you can just have on hand. Obviously you want to have your child eating the same things as you most of the time, but it’s ok to sometimes want a meal that they can’t/won’t eat, just make sure you have some easy options available so they can still get a good dinner!

That’s precisely my case. For a series of circumstances (including a more flexible working schedule), I spend most of the time with our almost-2-year-old: prepare and take him to “morning-care” (mornings are when I really must be at work; the rest I can do from home); get him back and sleep with him part of the afternoon; when we wake up, I take him to swimming classes twice a week; the rest of the days, we go out to run errands or just stay home playing, till the time my wife joins us (usually around 5/6pm); and I’m usually the one who helps him into sleeping (in fact, there was one occasion when my wife became kind of angry/frustrated because he kept crying for me while she tried to make him sleep..).

For a time, my wife would feel the social pressure to assume the primary caretaker role (society definitely is not ready for this kind of situation), but now she deals much better with our arrangement. So far, it’s working.

Miriam, no way in this article had religion been mentioned. Please note that the definition of marriage could be widely accepted as: “Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establishes rights and obligations between the spouses, between the spouses and their children, and between the spouses and their in-laws.[1] The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but it is principally an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged. When defined broadly, marriage is considered a cultural universal.” This has nothing to do with any religion.

Secondly, there is nothing in this article that stated the ‘only way’ to have a deep meaningful relationship with another human being is to be married. She simply stated that the ‘greatest expression of sexuality is in the context of marriage when all elements of attachment can be fulfilled’. She didn’t say it was the ONLY way.

I understand that it is very hard to feel that you have been wronged and that your feelings of ‘not good enough’ has been triggered by this article and this article simply lets you look at how you’ve been raising your children and to let you know that if you keep going the same path…your children could very well grow up using sex as a way to attach to another human being. Then we wonder why teenage pregnancies and STDs are on the rise. All I’m saying is now you ladies know that there is another way of doing things better then do better so you can change your legacies once and for all.