Dads Do Their Duty Too

Although I don’t wish to deny cognitive psychologist Kristen Taylor her Mother’s Day indulgence, I do wish that she’d balanced her writing with more cogitating (“Wife Envy,” Metropolis, May 11). For example, Taylor, self-amused, broadly swipes at fathers’ parenting and household management skills, then gets serious and specific about the amount of housework men do. However, she neglects to state whether men are out of the house and in the work world twice the hours that women are, perhaps explaining why they do less housework. The men and fathers I know are as ready, willing and able to do housework and parent as the women I know. In my circle of family, friends and acquaintances, fathers feel every bit as responsible for taking care of their children as mothers do.

Bill Hoffine

San Diego