I know dads in the US don't tend to go on long stretches of parental leave, but that was not what I referred to in my post. Tere are countries where it is very much the norm for both parents to take long parental leaves, and there is plenty of research showing that when both parents (in a heterosexual marriage with children) have the same opportunity of staying home with the kids, on average they will split the leave days fairly equally. Again, there is a lot of individual variation between individual couples. I don't personally know any dads who took less than six months of paternal leave (nine to twelve months is more common in my experience) but I don't think my acquaintances are necessarily representative.

Me, I would hate to be home with kids. I'm sure H would have loved it though.