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

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

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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Dads Who Spend Time With Their Kids Make Happier Employees

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.

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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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Not All Fathers Are Feckless. Let's Cut Them Some Slack

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.” 

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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'

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

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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Jimmy Fallon Takes One Large Step For Infertility

The late-night host’s admission that daughter Winnie Rose was conceived via a surrogate will help remove the shroud of secrecy and judgment that surrounds infertility. In his popular “Thank You Notes” segment on a recent episode, Jimmy Fallon wrote the following note to Prince George.....

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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

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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Video Posted By Father Of 14-Month-Old Playing With Python Sparks Online Outrage

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. 

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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

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

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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What You Don't Know About A GentleBirth Dad

What you don't know about a GentleBirth Dad. You hear a lot of Moms on pregnancy forums throwing out comments about how their partners will act in labor. Examples being “I hope he doesn’t annoy me” or "faint”: These are rarely concerns GentleBirth Moms have regarding the abilities...

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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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Police Officers Chip In to Help a Shoplifting Dad

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.

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Expectant Dads Experience Prenatal Hormone Changes Too

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.

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