I'll be brief today (family in town), but wanted to point out a couple of links. The Contra Costa Times has a nice piece on the economics of going from two incomes to one. For obvious reasons (numbers), they focus on moms, but they do throw in this line: "While there are fewer statistics on stay-at-home dads, more men are making choices too. Better pay for women has resulted in more two-parent families where the mom is the sole breadwinner." It's always nice when those sorts of social trends are noted ...

Let's see ... Michael Douglas says he wants to be an at-home dad and let Catherine bring home the bucks. And I need to note this quote from a take-your-kids-to-work-day story: "I have a good friend who works in a law firm and whose husband is a stay-at-home dad," added the CEO. [Cinda Hallman of Spherion Corp.] "That's less an anomaly than it used to be." The story, on the whole, is a happy one: the idea that sons as well as daughters should be introduced to the idea of work/family balance.