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Move Over, Mom, It's Dad's Turn In Ads
Move Over, Mom, It's Dad's Turn In Ads

Often ignored or portrayed as a dolt in advertising, the family patriarch is finally getting his due. Kind and gentle dads are populating pitches this year for everything from General Mills' Cheerios and HyundaiSonata to Similac. Proud papas will also star in at least three Super Bowl spots -- for Unilever's Dove Men+Care, Toyota and Nissan -- all of which feature fatherhood prominently and positively. Dads are even getting a lot more notice from two brands marketed by "The Proud Sponsor of Mom." A new spot for Procter & Gamble's Swiffer WetJet shows a single dad playing with his little boy and cleaning up later. 

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Kids Rejected From Religious School Because They Have Two Dads
Kids Rejected From Religious School Because They Have Two Dads

A private Christian school in Tennessee has told a pair of prospective parents to look elsewhere — because they happen to be gay dads. “I believe another education provider would be a better fit for your children. Therefore, we cannot grant admission to your children,” reads a letter from the school that was posted on Facebook Wednesday by Brian Copeland. Copeland and his husband Greg Bullard, a pastor, are the fathers of 3-year-old son who is readying to enter pre-K, as well as a daughter who is 8 months old. 

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Watch This Dad and 'Very Sassy' Toddler Face Off
Watch This Dad and 'Very Sassy' Toddler Face Off

Gareth Roe has his hands full with his 1-year-old daughter, Lola. The father of one Saturday noticed the curious toddler climbing in places she shouldn't have been, so he decided to approach her. “Lola climbed onto the TV stand to pull the clothes from the clothes....

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Touching Super Bowl Ad Celebrates Dads
Touching Super Bowl Ad Celebrates Dads

An adorable new ad that will premiere during the Super Bowl shows children of all ages uttering many fathers’ favorite word: Daddy. The ad is a part of Dove Men+Care’s new “Real Strength” campaign, which, according to a press release, celebrates “the caring side of modern men.”

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Dad Who Dressed Up As Spider-Man To Surprise Dying Son, Vows To Help Other Kids With Cancer
Dad Who Dressed Up As Spider-Man To Surprise Dying Son, Vows To Help Other Kids With Cancer

An inspirational dad who made his own Spider-Man costume to cheer up his son dying of cancer has vowed to help other children struck down with the disease. Mike Wilson lost his son Jayden on Christmas Eve after the five-year-old lost his battle with a Grade 4 Brain Stem tumour.

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A Dad's Response to His Twin Gay Sons Coming Out Is Perfect
A Dad's Response to His Twin Gay Sons Coming Out Is Perfect

"I love your both. That'll never change." Every child wants to hear this from their parents — especially when it's the moment after they come out as gay. In this case, the father of YouTube "stars" Aaron and Austin Rhodes, who bravely filmed their coming out announcement for the world to see, got to deliver the loving words twice in a row. The brothers start their video by announcing their sexuality to their fans, but the twins still had one more person to tell: their father.

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Dads Shows Off Some Serious Dance Skills In Viral Video
Dads Shows Off Some Serious Dance Skills In Viral Video

This video proves age is just a number. A son filmed his father pulling off an incredible dance routine ... and he totally nails it! This takes dad dancing to the next level. In the video he's dancing to Johnny Gill's "Rub You the Right Way" and he looks like he could have been a secret member of New Edition or New Kids on the Block ... or someone's backup dancer in the '90s with these dance moves!

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Kordale And Kaleb, Gay Black Dads, Star In Nikon 'I Am Generation Image' Campaign
Kordale And Kaleb, Gay Black Dads, Star In Nikon 'I Am Generation Image' Campaign

One short year ago, Kordale and Kaleb were a pair of gay black fathers quietly raising their three beautiful children and going about their lives like any other parents. Today, they're starring in a new campaign for Nikon with their kids. The couple is the focus of Nikon's "I Am Generation Image" campaign, which features the family sharing their inspiring story through a new video.

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Video: Adorable Baby Announcement Captures New Father's Reaction
Video: Adorable Baby Announcement Captures New Father's Reaction

A pregnancy announcement shared by a Minnesota couple has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. The video was posted on YouTube on Christmas Eve. Since then, it's been shared on numerous websites across the country. During an evening at Minneapolis' Pizzeria Lola, the couple went into the pizza shop's photobooth where the woman in the video, identified as Jessica Devins by her YouTube profile, decided to pull off the ultimate surprise.

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This Rugby Star Wants Dads To Be More Hands-On
This Rugby Star Wants Dads To Be More Hands-On

England rugby star Ben Foden has said he is just as happy changing nappies as he is on the pitch. The father-of-one, who is fronting a Government drive to encourage fathers to play a greater role in raising their babies, isn’t afraid to roll his sleeves up and immerse himself in parenthood. “In this day and age women can just as easily be the main breadwinner as men,” said the 29-year-old Northampton Saints fullback, who has a two-year-old daughter, Aoife Belle, with his wife, Saturdays singer Una, whom he married in 2012.

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Father's Controversial Photo Shows Him 'Just Being a Dad'
Father's Controversial Photo Shows Him 'Just Being a Dad'

What does a night in the life of a dad look like? For 28-year-old Jon Arrigo, who posted a picture on Reddit entitled “Just being a dad,” it looks pretty good: Playing video games, snuggling with one daughter while getting his toenails painted by the other. Arrigo posted the photo on December 2, and with nearly 2000 comments, it quickly became one of the top posts of the day. 

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Why Some New Dads Feel Isolated
Why Some New Dads Feel Isolated

Even during an age when traditional gender roles are being aggressively questioned, the notion of the goofy, hapless dad is still pretty entrenched in our cultural imagination. Moms are expected to be constant (and constantly nurturing) big-time problem solvers, while dads are seen as having a more peripheral role that can be broken down to discrete, practical tasks — someone's gotta teach the kid how to ride a bike, after all.

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Dad’s Adorable Lesson for 2-Year-Old Princess
Dad’s Adorable Lesson for 2-Year-Old Princess

It’s never too early to teach our children that they deserve to be treated with love and respect, and that’s just the message one father is imparting to his 2-year-old daughter in this adorable video. Los Angeles dad Demetrius Brown catches Nola mid-meal and gives her a quick but memorable lesson: a man should always keep your honor intact, he should only lay a hand on you if he is “giving you love,” and daddy will always be there to make sure you’re treated well.

 

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How Good Dads Can Change the World
How Good Dads Can Change the World

As well as fighting for women’s equality, we should be lobbying for men to be equal partners at home. The financial and cultural benefits would change our world. Tony has been accumulating identities. He’s the son of Mexican immigrants; his father was abusive. He’s a high school drop-out. He was a gang member and then an inmate who’d been jailed for gang activity and the use of a deadly weapon. Gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.

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Dad Raises $1M For Stepdaughter’s Cancer Treatment While Fighting Disease Himself
Dad Raises $1M For Stepdaughter’s Cancer Treatment While Fighting Disease Himself

Tom Attwater, of the United Kingdom, is fighting to save his stepdaughter’s life while battling the same disease that threatens his own health. Attwater’s stepdaughter Kelli, 5, had begun her second round of cancer treatment when Attwater was diagnosed with brain cancer....

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West Michigan Dad Makes Sure Kids Get A White Christmas
West Michigan Dad Makes Sure Kids Get A White Christmas

While most people want a white Christmas, depending on where you live in West Michigan, that may not happen. But, one father is making sure his kids will have snow on Christmas for sure. There are two types of Michiganders: those who don’t like the snow, and those like Mark Hughes. For the past four years, Hughes has created a winter wonderland for his family when mother nature wouldn’t cooperate.

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Dad Breaks World Record With Giant Christmas Light Display
Dad Breaks World Record With Giant Christmas Light Display

A dad in Australia has claimed the Guinness World Record title for the largest image made of LED lights with a mesmerizing display featuring almost 1.2 million lights. The Christmas scene, masterminded by lawyer David Richards and built with the help of volunteers, features 1,194,380 lights that give the illusion of three interconnected wrapped gifts, set to a backdrop of more lights, according to Guinness World Records.

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Dad Gives Kids "Terrible" Christmas Presents; See Their Adorable Reactions
Dad Gives Kids "Terrible" Christmas Presents; See Their Adorable Reactions

A dad decided to surprise his two kids with “terrible” presents two weeks before Christmas, but he never imagined what would be their reaction. “As we approach Christmas I wonder if my children realise how fortunate they are when they are inevitably spoilt rotten on Christmas Day,” Tim Cocker wrote in the description of the YouTube video.

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Dads Dance To Dubstep The Holiday Way - In Christmas Sweaters
Dads Dance To Dubstep The Holiday Way - In Christmas Sweaters

In this video, four dads simultaneously show off their holiday style and their dance moves, sporting ugly Christmas sweaters while getting down to dubstep. In an ad for Sainsbury's, dads show off their dubstep moves while sporting Christmas sweaters. Sainsbury's, who put the video together, is a supermarket in the United Kingdom known for its holiday ads, like its viral Christmas ad from last month, a recreation of the ceasefire of Christmas 1914.

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Ashton Kutcher Gets Emotional Talking About Baby Wyatt & "Perfect Mom" Mila Kunis
Ashton Kutcher Gets Emotional Talking About Baby Wyatt & "Perfect Mom" Mila Kunis

Fatherhood is everything Ashton Kutcher dreamed it would be—and more! 

The Two and a Half Men star cooed over his 2-month old daughter, Wyatt Isabelle Kutcher, when he stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show Friday. "It's just [Mila Kunis] and you taking care of the baby?" host Ellen DeGeneres asked. Kutcher replied, "Yes, just the two of us. It's awesome. It's unbelievable."

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