Dear Dad, You’re doing an awesome job. Thanks for the extra-cash that one night when I was waiting for my direct deposit to clear and thanks, too, for being as horrified as I am now by the tattoo that’s forever etched on my lower back.
Read More
A Facebook post by actor Ashton Kutcher lamenting the lack of diaper changing tables in public men's rooms has parents talking. The new father -- he and partner Mila Kunis welcomed baby Wyatt Isabelle in October...
Read More
A Superman-obsessed dad in Washington left behind two kids when he died Saturday but saved two lives through kidneys he donated just hours after his death, ABC News reported.
Read More
When it comes to parents, it seems that three or even four is no longer a crowd. At least, that’s the conclusion one might draw from the case of Sheena and Tiara Yates, a married lesbian couple in New Jersey. They’ve had their parenting expectations upended—twice—by the sperm donors of their two kids.
Read More
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — In January, Massachusetts passed a new law mandating that men in the state are entitled to eight weeks of unpaid paternity leave. The law, which is set to go into effect in early April, essentially renders the existing maternity leave policy in Massachusetts gender-neutral.
Read More
Pop singer Ricky Martin has been hopscotching the world since his preteen days as a member of Menudo. These days, he splits his time mostly between his native Puerto Rico and Sydney, Australia, where he has lived part-time since becoming a judge on The Voice Australia in 2013.
Read More
Pope Francis pulled off his kid gloves Wednesday, denouncing in the strongest terms what he called a “society without fathers.” “Particularly in Western culture,” he said, the father figure is “symbolically absent, missing and removed.” At first, Francis explained, the absence of fathers “was perceived as a liberation: liberation from the father-master, from the father as a representative of the law that is imposed from the outside, from the father as a censor of the happiness of children and obstacle to the emancipation and autonomy of young people.”
Read More
They are seen as the embodiment of a severe and aloof brand of parenting, as far removed as it is possible to image from the hands-on style of today’s “new dads” – embodied by Jamie Oliver, David Beckham or even David Cameron. But a study of Victorian fathers has concluded that the image is largely a myth and that they had more in common with their 21st Century counterparts than many would imagine.
Read More
They are less likely to leave for another company. Working fathers who see their children daily are more satisfied with their jobs and less likely to resign, according to a new study. The findings, to be published next month in the Academy of Management Perspectives, suggests that companies should allow working fathers time with family as way to increase employee retention. It also hints at the importance of flexible schedules so that fathers can be there for their children, even during traditional office hours.
Read More
There has been a lot of surprise that a rugby star is to front a campaign encouraging men to share parental leave when the new legislation comes in to force in April. Ben Foden plays for the Northampton Saints and is expecting to be mocked by fans and team-mates for this role. “There will be some changing room banter,” said the dad of two-year-old Aoife. “It’s part and parcel of being a rugby player.”
Read More
Jamie Guarino, 34, is a snake handler based in Michigan. Recently, video emerged of Guarino's 14-month-old daughter Alyssa playing with his pet python snake Nay-Nay. Guarino argues that his daughter was in no danger when playing with the snake. "I was trying to show that snakes are not evil creatures, they can be a loving pet despite their bad reputation," Guarino said in the video.
Read More
A 23-year-old father was caught shoplifting baby formula on Sunday, but instead of arresting him, four cops—and the store—chipped in to send the dad home with $80 worth of food for his 11-month-old. An employee at a Roswell, New Mexico, Albertsons grocery store called police after spotting the dad smuggling canisters of formula into a baby carrier. When the police confronted the man, they learned that he had recently lost his job.
Read More
One of the most extensive studies on prenatal hormones in first-time expectant parents has revealed that both men and women experience hormonal changes during pregnancy. The study, published in the American Journal of Human Biology, found significant prenatal declines in testosterone and estradiol in men, which researchers say suggests that impending fatherhood may cause men’s hormone levels to change.
Read More
NANTES: A French appeals court on Tuesday (Nov 25) denied a father custody of his 18-month-old son, who was put up for adoption at birth by his ex-girlfriend. Yoan Delorme, 29, was in prison when the baby was born and handed over to the state by his ex-girlfriend under a French law which allows women to give birth anonymously.
Read More
The real point of career modes in soccer video games is to snatch up a grip of the world's most hyped youngsters and slowly build a juggernaut. Fans of Football Manager—that impossibly detailed, life-consumingly fun computer game—were dismayed to find Norway's new starlet Martin Ødegaard missing on account of his age. Thanks to this future world of camera phones and Twitter, the problem has now been rectified.
Read More
In response to Charles Murray’s piece about celebrating the social value of stay-at-home wives and mothers, my colleague Jim Tankersley asked (via Twitter) an excellent question: Why focus on stay-at-home women rather than stay-at-home men, given that women are accumulating more human capital than their male counterparts? Young women are more likely to get college degrees today than men are; doesn’t that suggest that women’s comparative advantage might lie in the workplace, while men’s lies at home?
Read More
"I guess I felt more like a mom than a dad," my friend Brad said. I had asked him about how he parents and whether he thought his style was more akin to a stereotypical mother or father. The two of us were sitting at a café in our neighborhood in San Francisco, debriefing after our stints as stay-at-home gay dads. Both of us were still only weeks out of stay-at-home life, and were trying to make sense of the experience. We were talking about whether we, as gay men and as parents, identified more with our male or female straight counterparts.
Read More
As a punishment for lying about her age to try and date an older boy, Louisville, Kentucky, dad Kevin Jones decided to resort to embarrassing his daughter as much as he could. Jones reportedly caught his 10-year-old daughter lying about her age on social media and posting pictures of herself that made her look older. When Jones found out that she had an older boyfriend, he came up with a creative way to make sure that she learned a lesson.
Read More
Many men describe the birth of their child as a truly wonderful, life-changing event. But with the new responsibility and devotion, the expense and duty that parenthood brings may also come feelings of anxiety and bouts of exhaustion and stress. Research even points to a form of depression in new fathers, triggered by a combination of hormonal fluctuations and a struggle to cope with the role and its expectations.
Read More
Sometimes I feel like a bad dad. Doubts over my parental savvy often correlate with how long I’m at the office. When I call to tell Mrs. Tepper that I’ll be here until 7:30 p.m. working on a magazine feature—and won’t be home to put our son Luke to bed—the soft disappointment in her voice stays with me like a faint ember. The same guilty feelings apply to my job, too.
Read More