Can get I one last post in before I head for the beach? Full Time Father links to this really astounding NY Post piece. FTF's comment was "Ouch!" Mine is [smack]. As in my hand against my forehead.

The upshot is that one-time-rising-political star Andrew Cuomo's soon-to-be ex-wife, Kerry Kennedy, went on a humanitarian mission to India in 1998, leaving her three young children behind with her husband and mother-and-law. For this she is taken seriously to task (her husband, sources assure the columnist, was a devoted family man).

This view of events raises some questions: Who says mom has to stay home? All the time? Why does dad, busy with politics, not get the same treatment? Shouldn't it take two people to fail a child? And since when does getting Grammy to babysit become a parenting move so horrific that one of the nation's biggest newspapers must denounce it?

The quotes from Andrew's camp makes dark suggestions about Kerry's "conduct" during the marriage. Over here at R.D., we don't feel able to judge what goes on inside any marriage, and we're not about to absolve anyone of responsibility. But for the media to decide that the problem was that mommy chose to work -- from time to time -- betrays the very kind of gender-equal thinking that makes up the cornerstone of Rebel Dad thinking.