The Brotherhood of the Stay-at-Home Dad

An excerpt from this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/fashion/the-brotherhood-of-the-stay-at-home-dad.html “Choo-choo-wa! Choo-choo-wa! Choo-choo-wa-wa-wah!” The words — the theme song of a children’s cartoon — were being bellowed by six grown men huddled on a makeshift stage in a hotel banquet room. The song leader, an education specialist, held up a baby rattle. “What can we do to encourage play?”…

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Single fathers head a record number of American households with children

If single fathers spend more time now with our children and make more money than single mothers, why should mothers get custody at all? Being a single parent is difficult. It doesn’t matter if you are male or female. I think it is time for our country to end the emphasis on single parenting and…

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No One Can “Have It All”

I found a great article in the latest issue of Esquire Magazine called WHY MEN STILL CAN’T HAVE IT ALL written by Richard Dorment. “Lately, the raging debate about issues of “work-life balance” has focused on whether or not women can “have it all.” Entirely lost in this debate is the growing strain of work-life balance on…

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Stressed Out Working Fathers?

They may not be happy about it, but working fathers have closed the “guilt gap” with working mothers, admitting they find it difficult to juggle work and family. Mothers, in turn, are becoming more likely to view earning money as an important part of motherhood. Both increasingly report they “always feel rushed.” “Fathers and mothers…

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