Daddy Dialectic

Coming home from work to find your wife nude in the living room is supposed to be one of the classic male heterosexual fantasies. So I natu...

In my August 14 meditation on family history, I call gay families "something totally new under the sun." But my landlady, Ruthann...

From today's New York Times : For the first time, women in their 20s who work full time in several American cities — New York, Chicago, ...

Marjorie Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an expert on imaginary friends. She read my August 27 post on ...

In the first months after my son was born, I experienced an emotional response to my dealings with other people that was truly new to me. It...

1. Frank Lloyd Wright: During a visit to Chicago, we took Liko to see two Frank Lloyd Wright houses. We bought him a Frank Lloyd Wright dol...

The Spot has a funny button. Finding it is one of the things that makes my day worthwhile. What makes it interesting is that the funny butto...

Reports the Washington Post : A just-published study of birds reports new insights into the evolution of altruistic behavior. It suggests th...

This photo depicts the J. Bates home in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the late 1800s. Note the size of the family and the size of the porch they...

If we were to grab a coffee together, you probably wouldn't guess that I'm going crazy. You might not even suspect that you're t...

Here's an interesting set of first-person stories from four very different fathers. In a strange way, perhaps because I've never ta...

The following is based on a series of comments I made recently over at Rebeldad : Stop the presses: Breadwinning moms are divorcing their st...

My high-school friend introduced me to her 5-year old son the other day. Apart from the fact that he stood exactly 180 degrees facing the op...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on non-traditional families, collected as the "2...

There are two hot new trends in my social circle: divorce and second children. Some couples are separating, others are reproducing, again. W...

You probably already have a gut sense of what the social science buzzword ' social capital ' means. Warren Buffet has financial capi...

The Spot is my zen master. He does it all while wrapped up like a monk in his sedan chair -- I mean stroller -- while being pushed around th...

the intro from rad dad 7 -- out this week note: i'll be tabling at the portland zine fest from aug 10 - 12. stop by! there will be a ...