It's always nice to see public thank you notes to at-home dads, and one particularly heartwarming one is in a just-published newspaper column. The gentleman from Fayetteville, NC is noted only by his first name (Don), but he sounds like a wonderful representative for the cause (in a military town, no less).

"I know there are other dads in his shoes in our community. I hope that their neighborhoods have accepted them as unconditionally as ours has accepted Don. Neighborhoods need guys to assist with plumbing problems and to play catch with the little ones who miss their own dads. Thanks, Don, for doing all these things and more in my neighborhood."

The author makes the fair point that Don doesn't deserve extra credit for being an at-home dad -- he's just doing what tens of millions of women do -- but that he should be recognized as pretty special nonetheless. Amen.