This piece originally appeared on momaha.com. Republished with permission. Last year, I wrote about Dad Discrimination. I wrote about how it felt to be treated as an insignificant side-kick to my wife, the presumed headliner parent. I bemoaned how commercials by AT&T and TV shows like “Everybody Loves Raymond” show dads as bumbling fools when it comes to […]
This piece originally appeared on Daddyshome, Inc. Republished with permission. It has been two weeks since the 16th Annual At-Home Dads Convention and my head is still spinning. And it’s not from the Guinness at Union Street Public House or O’Connell’s or Murphy’s or Eamonn’s Dublin Chipper (best fish & chips place ever!). It’s from what I […]
Earlier this year, a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States showed that fatherhood leads to a drop in testosterone. Fathers who are most actively involved in child rearing and caretaking experience the biggest decline. These findings, far from suggesting that men become wimps as they become […]
This piece was originally published at the Good Men Project. Republished with permission. I was a fifty-fifty child. After the divorce, my parents divided custody down the middle; my younger brother and I migrated like clockwork between their homes every three and a half days. It was logistically exhausting—which house are my cleats at? Where’s […]
This post originally appeared on Strong Men Speak. Republished with permission. In the Boston College Center for Work & Family study The New Dad: Caring Committed and Conflicted we asked fathers how much time they had taken away from work after the birth of their most recent child. More that three-quarters of fathers in the study took […]
This post originally appeared on the Women’s Media Center. Republished with permission. The author, a nationally recognized authority on the choices women make as they age, analyzes a new study that tracks an unrealistic and stressful standard of perfection for men. In 1963 Betty Friedan’s Feminine Mystique identified The Problem That Has No Name—a soul-destroying malaise and […]
Women expect more from their husbands than ever before. The days of us husbands putting our feet up or refusing to share our feelings are long gone. Though we acknowledge this shift, we struggle to adapt to these new expectations since we lack role models for doing so. When I talk to other young married […]
Have you ever witnessed this scene? Two women meet for the first time. A few minutes later, they’re engrossed in conversation, effortlessly discussing the intimate details of their lives. By the end, they’ve often formed a meaningful bond. A little later, their male partners join them. They stand around chatting with each other, having what […]
It’s now almost 30 years since the publication of Helen Gurley Brown’s “Having It All: Love, Success, Sex, Money Even If You’re Starting With Nothing“. In the book, the former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine argued that it was completely possible for the modern woman to have everything she’d always wanted, from a stellar career to […]
Marlo Thomas is something of a personal hero to me, but I was admittedly disappointed by her recent article for the official launch of the new HuffPost Women’s Page. I was raised on Free To Be…You And Me (I still occasionally catch myself humming the tune to William Wants a Doll), I have great respect […]
I’m a member of a small, but increasing minority: the stay-at-home father. Like stay-at-home mothers always have, I’ve put aside my professional ambitions and earning power to be the primary caregiver for our children. I’m not saying that I would change that. I really love my kids and wouldn’t trade places with anyone in the […]
