Madonna says her husband Guy Ritchie balked at changing nappies because he's 'a man's man', and 'it's not a man's job'. Here we ask some well-known men's men if they've ever tackled the smelly end of parenthood. Interviews by John Crace, Rob Kitson and Alice Wignall
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Donal MacIntyre
I changed my first nappy when I was 12 years old. It was just a basic part of mucking in with family life; it was expected that I would change my nieces and nephews when they came to visit and it never occurred to me I was doing anything out of the ordinary. I don't have any kids of my own as yet, but when I do, it wouldn't occur to me not to get involved with nappy-changing, in the same way as it wouldn't occur to me not to share the cooking, washing, etc. It's preposterous for a man to claim he's too hard to get involved in these things; for some reason, it's often the most independent women who let their partners get away with this old-fashioned chauvinism.
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Friday November 11, 2005
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1640038,00.html