It turns out women were right all along.

A new survey reveals more than half of all dads pretend to be asleep when their babies are crying to duck the night feeds and changing nappies.

Their excuse? Women are better at parenting.

As if we needed a survey to convince us.

One man (who unsurprisingly wished to remain anonymous) admitted, “It’s true. I pretend to be asleep all the time. In fact, since the baby was born, I have been pretending to work late in the office.

“In actual fact I hang out at the shisha bar.

“Once I saw my wife’s brother coming into the shisha bar so I legged it.

“I ended up hiding in the local mosque and playing games on my phone in the corner just to avoid going home.

“Because my missus thinks I’m working long hours, she won’t even attempt to wake me up in the middle of the night when the baby cries.”

Another friend revealed her husband’s peremptory argument when it came to the night time feeds, “Well I’m not the one with breasts.”

Which reminds me of that controversial fatwa that announced women should be paid for breast-feeding her baby by her husband.

Not that we’re entering a febrile debate on gender politics here.

However, the only thing worse than a man who determinedly pretends to be asleep to avoid baby duty is the man who buys his wife fake jewellery whilst doggedly pretending it’s real.

You know who you are.

They’re as bad as the vainglorious blokes who think it is okay to break up with someone via WhatsApp.

A man who looks after the baby at night without being prompted, buys real jewellery and does not engage in inane text dialogue…a girl can dream can’t she?