This reminds me so much of A Doll's House, which I saw again last night at the Johnson Theater at UNH. Throughout the whole thing, as much as the characters' motives, I was mesmerized/ repulsed by the sheer tonnage of mysogyny in that show, or at least the times it protrays. Torvald's treatment of Nora as his own personal plaything, his expressed view of her as his wife _and_ daughter as she could not possibly deal with any aspect of reality as a woman... It was truly difficult to watch. I would be surprised not to see someone write an article in TNH about how absolutely offensive it is despite the fact that it is a portrait of people, particularly Nora, but also others, who are faced with this reality and forced to make hard choices about how to change their lives. I'm about to start rambling, so I'mma stop. Sometimes the right of free speech is just wasted, to bring this full circle back to you post... those people, raising children... ugh