Friday, September 16, 2005

Kind of a Friday grab bag today. I'll start in Hollywood, where, unbeknownst to me, there is another at-home dad based comedy making the rounds "Trust the Man" has David Duchovny playing the sex-addict (?!) SAHD. Apparently, it was just shown in Toronto and it ain't half bad. So that makes at least three celluloid at-home fathers that could be in wide release: the script for Stay at Home Tom has been optioned, and there's supposedly working on Little Children.

Chip highlighted this priceless New Yorker cartoon from this week's issue. I love it on a number of different levels, not the least of which is that dad is fighting to be the primary caretaker. After all, it *is* a plum gig.

And I keep not posting this well-done Des Moines Register story. There is a nice profile there, but the author, Amy LaMar, makes a critical point that is generally lost when talking about us:
At least 400,000 men across the country may feel the same way, according to 2003 Census Bureau data, although the number is hard to classify.

"Many stay-at-home dads aren't defined as such because of gender roles," said Darcie Vandegrift, assistant professor of sociology at Drake University. "They're retired, disabled, students. There are up to 2 million stay-at-home dads (across the country)."

Vandegrift's husband, Victor Tonelli, is among those who aren't classified as a stay-at-home dad since he runs a part-time computer consulting business out of the couple's Des Moines home. But it's been "his turn" for the past five years, he said, and he loves spending time with their children, Anson, 8, and Risa, 2.
Finally, someone gets it.

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