I paid the nice folks at AOL Time Warner their $3.95, and took home my own copy of this week's Time (cover story: "The Case for Staying Home"). My take? Like Mike, I was underwhelmed. Not much ground that Fast Company and the New York Time Magazine's Lisa Belkin haven't already covered.

I have no doubt that the trend is a real one, based on my own anecdotal experiences. And, to its credit, the story does a reasonable job of suggesting that work policies remain stubbornly family unfriendly.

But like the other rich-well-educated-moms-fleeing-the-workplace stories, dads weren't mentioned at all. No explanation of why dads don't appear to be feeling the same pull toward home, no details on why the idea of co-parenting seems to be in decline (replaced by "sequencing" ... the idea that moms can slip right back into the workforce after a few years at home).

The implication that bothers me is that "the case for staying home" isn't worth making to fathers. In the lead to the story, the frazzled working mom struggles with her 10-hours days and the childcare and the breakfasts and the pressure and the guilt. Dad usually leaves the house at about 5:30 a.m. No word on whether or not he feels work/family stress at all.

Then again, no one is asking him. "Opting out of the rat race," as the cover puts it, is for "young moms." The other side of Time's message: Back to your desks, guys.