Editing Blog/2025-03-12/Fatherhood (section)

== Notes ==

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Who would end up being the officiant at our wedding
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<ref name=cg>
We asked him if he and his wife were expecting, and then he told us how they decided it was time.
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<ref name=gf>
Shortly after Charles said what I've quoted, he asked me if Julie and I were dating. Put on the spot, I said we were and had been since January. This was the last in a long line of similar questions from our friends, starting months earlier with Shreyas.
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<ref name=lr>
The majority of them have known her for longer than they've known me because we all met at LiveRamp where we worked for many years.
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Anna Karenina by Tolstoy starts "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.". Perhaps it's true. Parenthood removes the lower-amplitude higher-frequency terms  and gives us a common form of joy: uniform to all.
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I'm an Arsenal fan (a gooner, a name otherwise appropriated these days) and Julie will tell you that on a match-day, my mood can fluctuate based on how we do. Arteta's hand at the reins has been good.
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<ref name=changed>
A thing I've always wondered about is what the influence of parenthood is on society. Parents are naturally more risk-averse than single people, particularly single men. So a society of mostly parents should be safer, ''ceteris paribus''. Japan is much safer than the US, and has a much higher childlessness rate, however, so that puts paid to that theory according to 
{{cite report
 | title        = Society at a Glance 2024
 | publisher    = OECD Publishing
 | year         = 2024
 | url          = https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2024/06/society-at-a-glance-2024_08001b73/918d8db3-en.pdf
 | page         = 11
}}
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