Quick Write

        The image of the pregnant men relates to Coltrane's chapter "Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas" because it basically explains how fathers are suppose to be the ones who work and bring home the money, not have the maternal relationship like the mothers. In the article Coltrane says "Because parenting is a learned behavior for both men and women, most social scientists focus on the societal conditions that create gender differences in parenting or find proximate social causes of paternal investment that outweigh assumed biological causes (443)." Meaning parenting should be upon both parents, where they each play their roles. However there roles are looked at as being interchangeable. Where as its not normal for the fathers to be the nurturing, caring, parent that looks after the child.