Reflections on Identity

You Are the Father, Not a Babysitter

When it’s hard for men to embrace fatherhood as a full-time role

Laura Friedman Williams
6 min readSep 16, 2021

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Photo by Federico Enni on Unsplash

If babysitting children, by definition, means watching children who don’t belong to you while their actual parents are out, then it is literally impossible for a parent to babysit his own child.

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Laura Friedman Williams

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.