Fathers are second class citizens

I have sat here in the Hospital for 2 days. I have come to the conclusion that fathers are considered second class citizens.

There are examples everywhere.

1. There is a posting on the wall talking about a "support person". I am now considered a "support person" instead of Father!!

2. No one asks me if I need anything or acknowledges me. I'm like a piece of furniture in the room.

3. My wife is asked all care questions for the baby. No one asks me. Why don't I ask any say in the care of my child?

4. My wife was asked if she wanted me at the circumcision. Why wouldn't I want to be?

We have been relegated to not being there. Because of the acts of the few who aren't even showing up for their child's birth have the real fathers, the true fathers, the ones who want to be involved in every waking moment of their child's birth, been now seen as someone who is just there in the room.

Well, wait..maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I am needed?? I am handed the bill at the end of the pregnancy and told. "We need you to pay these check!". That's what real fathers have become...just The guy who pays the bills.

It's a very messed up society that says that fathers are no longer needed...well except to pay the bills.