Daddy's Enigmatic Supply Side Paradigm

It would be wonderful if the book of new daddy rules could specify either or both the right quantity and quality of time a father should spend with a child.

Perhaps The Wall Street Journal, which just published the "good news" that laid off Wall Streeters would get more quality time with their kiddies could evolve a supply side solution to the quality/quantity equation?

For too much time being a bad thing they might consider that Indiana's Paul Lester Norris Jr. should be spending much less time with his daughter, Kerri. Both have just been arraigned for jointly stalking her ex-husband ... and there was the chocolate milk in the gas tank, as well.

But quality time, too, is problematic. The father of rapper Wyclef Jean had faith he could bring his son from Haiti (where he left him as he escaped Papa Doc for Brooklyn's not-as-mean streets) and turn his face to the Lord's work — even if it leaves a memory that " "He didn't think twice about beating me up so badly I needed to be taken to hospital." Not enough quality time with son, but not a horrible denouement.

Now Jean, whose father nearly died six years ago, is faced with his daughter laughing at him and all because he is spending so much time with her in a pool. Is laughing at daddy a good thing?

** If dads were really evolving, surely the answers to these problems would be written down somewhere by now. **