what you yourself have paid into our system. They might not be working on a literal farm. but society still needs a younger generation to help support the last one. Most moms I know (and expectant mothers) spend an inordinate amount of time on the Internet. If they truly have no access to books, magazines, real-life people, medical professionals and others to advise them about standard preparations for having an infant in the house, then they certainly have access to millions of Web pages on the topic. Seriously! Why shouldn't we ALL have a right to help in our chosen pursuits? Oh yeah, it's called independence, pride, dignity and standing upon one's own feet. You don't ask me for help with your neonate, and I won't ask you to come over and stuff envelopes for Planned Parenthood. (And btw, don't newborns sleep a lot? Why can't the parents be seeing to the housework et al during that time? I know women who have returned to work within days of childbirth -- including one who was a nurse herself -- so it's not ALWAYS debilitating.) Yes, newborns do sleep a lot -- in 1 hour increments around the clock. When you deal with that kind of chronic sleep deprivation for weeks on end immediately following essentially running a marathon equivalent (ok, mine was only 37 hours of labor, which, in case you haven't done it, is called labor for a reason) plus the lovely post-partum hormonal crash (think PMS x 400),