r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Apr 24 '26

Meme needing explanation Lois?

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u/Okita_Souji03 Apr 24 '26

What kind of country do you live in where that's okay? Or even if not okay, common...

Granted I'm no father yet but my girlfriend means too much to me to be able to abandon her if she needs me by her side normally, let alone during childbirth

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u/npdady Apr 24 '26

American maybe? I personally do not know a single person like this in my social circle.

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

I mean I'm American and personally if I ever have a wife that's going through labor i'm going to be right there with her holding her hand and giving her hugs and doing everything I can to let her know I'm there for her.

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u/npdady Apr 24 '26

I've only heard sad story like this from Americans so I guess my guess was biased, that's my bad.

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u/LutraNippon Apr 24 '26

Nah, those people exist, its 360m people spread across a landmass the size of all of Europe, so it has the same diversity as all the European stereotypes you can think of. Classy and trashy people know no boundaries.

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

I mean knowing my fellow Americans it's probably not far off. One of the biggest problems we face as a nation is broken family dynamics. When you consider how common it likely is that those who end up in the hospital for labor are from weak pullout game, drugs, alcohol, basically just not making responsible reproductive choices, it's not exactly surprising that the "men" that tend to show up in the hospital with the mom aren't exactly shining examples of virtue. I use men in quotation marks there because really they're boys. Legally adult and actually a man are 2 very different things that rarely ever coincide.

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u/Okita_Souji03 Apr 24 '26

Well I don't doubt that the pregnancies that carry such stories came from one of the examples you gave... Drugs and alcohol are never a good sign imo, especially in excess

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u/Subject_Driver_7822 Apr 24 '26

As a former heavy drinker, if I never touch a bottle of liquor again, it'll already be too soon.