Daddy Dialectic

Three links. In all of them, you can see the old world standing side by side with the new: 1. "Workers inventing new types of career mo...

Recently I've been hearing a lot of comments from anti-feminists on how feminism has "failed" or from feminists about how men ...

For a little while now, I've been stopping by a local bakery every Friday morning to pick up a challah loaf. Most often I was served by ...

The Spot had no idea what was coming when he started rehearsing his routine for the future Olympic sport of synchronized water-disco on the ...

On a cool and rainy spring morning about one month ago, I saw my wife to the door after three months of maternity leave. I took a picture of...

by Chip A few months ago, in a post entitled "Kids vs. Religion," I argued that kids don't need religion. Then a few weeks a...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on stay-at-home fathers and non-traditional families,...

Stephanie Coontz is a professor of history at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and Director of Research and Public Educati...

Our son Liko was born at St. Luke's hospital in San Francisco. We were supposed to go to Kaiser, but in the most harrowing sixty minutes...

I just got back from the tenth anniversary conference of the Council on Contemporary Families, a network of family researchers that I recent...

Today's entry is all about me. I'll try to make it interesting and relevant to readers who are not-me. First: Beacon Press has offe...

I rolled out of bed at 5:30, the baby and Shelly still sleeping. I pulled on some clothes and went out the door in search of coffee. Walking...

In my March 26 post , I cited a widely reported-upon Bureau of Labor Statistics report that said more and more mothers are dropping out of t...

...are, apparently, stay-at-home dads. The University of Texas just released a new study of dads who take care of kids, summarized in a most...

The New York Post has a nice summary of new Census numbers on families : The bureau, which polled 100,000 homes nationwide, found that abou...

Note: Just a quick announcement that I will be going up the Northwest doing readings with artnoose of the zine ker-bloom. Along the way w...

I hear it a lot: the debate over stay-at-home dads (and moms) is a privileged one, since, some say, most couples must work two jobs just to ...