Would you marry me anyway ? Would you have my baby ?

One of my colleagues is currently expecting a baby. I believe his girlfriend's going to do the actual producing, but he seems pretty expectant too. Said baby is due (overdue, even) so he's ready to dash out of work at a moment's notice.

I think I take it as read that any father today who's expecting to be moderately involved with a child would be present at the birth, if at all possible. I'd take it as read that any father a century ago would be as far away as he could feasibly manage from anything so out of his ken.

What I want to know is ( when was the watershed ? )

Or am I currently surrounded by woolly, lefty, new men who are giving me a distorted idea of the world today ?