Our Purpose
American society needs a change in the way birth is handled. This would improve health care and improve the lives of American women and children. If men understood the significance of their place, then they would want to know about what they can do. They would be seeking the information. Today most men are not interested. They don't realize how their ignorance and apathy negatively affects their mates and their forming families.There was a time when the call to the lifeboats was first for women and children. When the ship is sinking, men would stay aboard and watch their loved ones rowing away. These men knew that perserving those who bear children along with the children was honorable and courageous.
Men learn from other men in society. There aren't men classes to attend. So since men have been excluded from birth, there aren't men to learn from. That is why Men at Birth was written; to address the dearth of knowledge about childbirth. Our hope is that women who are supported by educated men will have the birth experiences they seek to fulfill their lives, and that will undoubtedly change the level of satisfaction men will experience in their lives.
Now is the time for men to relearn their place. To be involved and to know something about the way birth is handled in America. Men need to take up the mission of being Birth Navigators.