Daddy Dialectic

It's a new media trend: Since 80 percent of people laid off in the recession have been guys, pundits and journalists are asking themselv...

And so here is the product of my collaboration with Texas-based DadLabs --I supplied the idea and the framework; they made it manly and amus...

OK, immature as it is, I'm really enjoying DadLabs , which is a good thing, because I collaborated with them to create a segment on the ...

Last month, I posted an essay about Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers: The Story of Success that provoked a lively discussion . Gladw...

It was a bitterly cold winter afternoon. 4PM and already dark. I was tired, and dreading the 2 hour stretch that yawned before me, from the ...

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Mothering reports on an important new study: The best chance of forming a long lasting relationship with an unmarried father and building th...

Like most yahoos with a blog, I gets lots of emails from random people plugging this or that product or resource. I always check them out, ...

I’m reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers: The Story of Success while at the same time applying to kindergartens for Liko. It’s an interestin...

My grandfather died this week. The following is adapted from the first chapter of The Daddy Shift, for which I had interviewed him . My gre...

Liko and I love Gumby, although when was a kid it creeped me out.

I'll be taking the rest of December off from blogging, but just in time for the holidays, I'm posting a revised, updated version my ...

Two brothers were attacked, and one killed, when a SUV full of homophobes saw them walking arm in arm : [Jose] Sucuzhanay (suh-KOO-chen-eye)...

Something really freaking smart from Ta-Nahesi Coates: In the arena of racial progress, I know of only a few more destructive forces, than ...

Good news from bad: The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a ruling that Virginia must enforce a Vermont court order awarding child-visitation...

'Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,' Says General

Via my pal Howie, here's an imperfect but interesting essay in the Seattle Stranger about transracial adoption: It would be easier for ...

Two years ago (!) we at Daddy Dialectic had a very good, substantial discussion about whether kids need religion . (The original post was wr...