Monday, June 27, 2005

Dad's Day Roundup, Part II. I know, I know, we're getting a bit past Father's Day, but I have plenty to share with you all. There will be one more edition, and then I think I'll be done. (Of course, we're beginning to get a buildup of some non-F.D. dad news, too.) (Fair warning: Today's post contains some self-referential bits.)

Mother's Movement Online
MMO -- ordinarily a thoughtful online publication -- drops its usual standards and runs a lengthy interview with me in which I engage in much naval-gazing.

MetroWest Daily News (MA)
A Boston-area paper runs the most extensive look at the question of what will become of Tom Scavo, the soon-to-be at-home on Desperate Housewives. The author gets bonus points for contacting various dads (including RebelDad) and asking them what they would do with such a character.

Des Moines Register
Some nice parent profiles out of Iowa, and the reporter deserves extra credit for talking to a number of people, including pediatricians, a day care manager and an elementary school principal about whether dads are more involved now than two decades ago. The consensus of those folks? Involved fathering is on the rise. Thanks, Bill!)

Vancouver (Canada) Sun (Link already gone. Text available upon request.)
Convention regular Tim sent me along a piece from the Great White North on Father's Day, a first-person account that seems on one level to celebrate at-home fatherhood, then goes about insulting pretty much every element of how we go about the job. The link has expired, but trust me, you're not missing much.
(Thanks, Tim!)

Bucks County (PA) Courier Times
Nice standard-issue story on local at-home dads. A particularly interesting detail on one of the little-discussed elements of the gender swap: an at-home father expressing frustration that he's not really welcome backstage at the ballet recital -- like all of the other moms -- to help his daughter get dressed.

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