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kittehpeoples
I do not believe for a minute that these women don't have any indication beforehand that their husbands will refuse to help raise their kids.
They probably do realize how inept/incompetent/lazy their husbands are, but at least one of the following happens:
- Before kids are born, the Moo is able to sweep the guy's shortcomings under the rug because she wuvs him. When she's struggling to wrangle a screeching brat while Duh sits on his ass playing video games, those shortcomings become harder to ignore, especially when Duh also expects dinner on the table and regular sex. A looooooot of women like to shack up with men they see as damaged because they think they can fix these men. Here's a hint: they can't. They also often get married and/or knocked up before they realize how worthless their man-babies are.
- Moo thinks that once babby comes, Duh will morph into a responsible parent. Then they go all surprised Pikachu when his life doesn't change a bit because he expects her to raise his brat for him. Going along with this, the Moo and Duh (mostly Moo) may be having a loaf to try and save their marriage, which as we all know works 0% of the time.
- The husband is the one who screams and begs and cries for his wife to give him a child, so the Moo mistakenly assumes that this burning desire for a child means he has a burning desire to parent said child. To quote one of the best cartoon moments ever, "Well isn't that cute...BUT IT'S WRONG!" Wanting kids and wanting to be a parent are two VERY different things. Men often want kids to have bareback sex and to prove their fertility and heterosexuality by impregnating their wives, but they don't want to raise those kids. So the Moos pick up the slack because the kids will get neglected otherwise.