Dads matter! As long as they're French?

[theorangemonkey]

Three months into being a parent, the gender politics of parenting continue to amaze me.  Most new fathers I know want to be active in their child's life, and most of them are comfortable doing things that previous generations considered "women's work", such as feeding and diaper changing and that kind of thing.  Still, the "daddy daycare" attitude, that fathering is something for special occasions only, remains popular, and pops up in the oddest places.

Monday night I was putting together a high chair for the baby, and noticed this on the side of the box it came in:


From Parenting
Which, if you look in the lower-right hand corner, says:

From Parenting

For Mom.  For the Parents.  At best, an odd quirk of translation.