My friend Judy (not an LJer) comments that we've had this spate of films in recent years (Mrs Doubtfire, Three Men and A Baby) which seem to be setting out to prove that men can be better mothers than women. "Motherhood, pshaw, it's a piece of cake. Now if I really set my mind to it...." Men are just so damn competitive.

But actually, I think it's fuelled by fear of redundancy. Single mothers have to be rubbished because if they can be shown to be doing a good job it would mean that men simply aren't needed any more.