Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Sacre Bleu!

PARIS — Almost 40 per cent of French men told a recent survey that they would like to, science permitting, become pregnant.
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The poll — conducted by Ipsos and published in the current issue of Children Magazine (Enfants Magazine)— showed that 38 per cent of the more than 500 fathers of children up to seven interviewed by phone said they would like, or would have liked, to be the one to carry their offspring to term.
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A slightly higher percentage of women respondents liked the idea of their spouses taking on the nine-month job. - AFP
This just shows that the 35-hour-workweek French will do anything to get more days off. It isn't children they want, it's maternity leave. I wonder what the survey would show if they told these guys they'd have to give up wine and smoking for nine months.