Single Mom Looks for Baby’s Father on YouTube

If you’re a man who took a vacation to Copenhagen last year, and if you’re also a man who met a women at the Custom House bar, and if that woman also took you back to her apartment shortly after you met, then you might want to sit up and pay attention to this.

Karen, 27, says that she had a one night stand 18 months ago that resulted in pregnancy.  She’s now mom to baby August, and she’s turned to YouTube to help track down his dad, a vacationing foreigner whose name and home country she can’t remember.

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Man Arrested for Kissing Daughter

Are you an affectionate father?  Good for you.  Might want to reign that in, however, if you ever visit Brazil.  Thanks to a new law intended to crack down on pedophiles traveling to the area to prey on young girls, an Italian man was arrested recently for kissing his own daughter in public.

Father, mother and daughter all insist that it was simple, playful, parental affection.  Yet the man remains jailed a week later.

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Being a Better Dad: Yankees Invite Kids into the Clubhouse

The NY Yankees are known for winning World Series (the most in the league), but these days they’re vying for the best dads in baseball title.

And it’s all thanks to Manager Joe Girardi, a father of three himself. Continue reading »

Enraged Dad Hits Daughter with … Pizza

In Gainsville, Florida, it’s illegal to hit your child with a slice of pizza, no matter how insanely mad she makes you.

A 38-year-old man asked his daughter to get off the computer.  She apparently didn’t like his tone — nor his choice of (racist, sexist) words, so — like many kids her age — the girl fired off a few remarks of her own.

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Dad Hires Actor to Tell Kid Dog is Gone

We have a new winner in the really crappy parenting category: a jobs examiner blogger found this piece of work on Craigslist. A dad is advertising for an actor to take their dog for a walk, then come back and tell the kids the dog took a hike. Continue reading »

Does Daddy Have to Be There for the Big Push?

When my friend told me her sister-in-law didn’t want her husband at the birth of their first child, I thought she was kidding. You do realize he’s seen it all before, right?

But according to a LilSugar survey this week, only sixty-three percent of women are adament that dad be there for the big moment. Continue reading »

Obama’s Father’s Day Message

While I can understand some of the criticism directed at President Barack Obama (the less over-heated criticism, anyway), I hope that even his harshest critics can agree that he seems to be a good dad. This Father’s Day, the Commander-in-Chief shares some of his thoughts on daddyhood in Parade Magazine.

First, a quick aside: Everyone who thinks that “print is dead” needs to realize that millions of Americans still read newspapers. Why else would President Obama contact Parade and ask them to publish his essay? He could just put it on the Internet, right? But if he did, many people wouldn’t get to read it. Continue reading »

Do Not Buy Dad Socks For Father’s Day

Of all the things you can get for dad on Father’s Day, I hope that “socks” are not even on your list. They certainly aren’t on his.

But this press release we received thinks that’s crazy. Crazy!

Here you go:

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Study Says: Want to Keep the Dad Around? Don’t Marry Him.

Wanna keep your baby daddy around after the kid comes? Don’t marry him, or at least that’s the conclusion of a study by researchers at the University of Maryland.

Actually the blessed union isn’t the deal breaker; it’s just not effective for keeping the guy around. Traditional wisdom said that if a couple got pregnant, marrying the man was the best way to keep him in the picture. However; according to this study Continue reading »