They Say - Women Argue With Men About Housework to Feel More Feminine

Oh please.

A survey of 15,000 American women discovered that female breadwinners ride their husbands about housework and childcare because they’re worried about losing touch with their “feminine” identity.

Excuse me while I go scream into a pillow.

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Raising the Expectations for Dads

One of the very many things that makes me happy I am living in this era versus the early 1960s (at least as presented on “Mad Men”) is that fathers are expected to take an active role in childcare — and the icky diaper-changing nose-wiping stuff, too, not just playing with your clean, bathed children for an hour before bedtime. I even can think of four stay-at-home dads I personally know without even having to strain my memory.

But the culture is pretty slow to change around us. This NPR essay by Richard Weissbourd talks about being relegated to the role of secondary parent, that his wife is pretty much expected to know all and take responsibility for all, while he’s treated like an adjunct.

Weissbourd points out, for example, that schools rarely send report cards to fathers after a divorce Continue reading »

Best of FameCrawler - Week of October 16th

Jesse James is Looking Out For Daughter Sunny

Ellen Pompeo Braves the Rain To Keep Her Body Bangin’

LeBron James and Teammates Have Swine Flu?

Who Are the Heenes? Photos and Home Videos

Tina Fey’s Daughter Wants To Be Bacon-Eating Robot For Halloween

Is Tori Spelling Dangerously Thin?

Balloon Boy - It Was All A Hoax –Video

Jon Gosselin Is Worse Than We Thought

First Photo: Jaycee Dugard in People Magazine

Vikki Zimmer: Wife of Bengals Coach Mike Zimmer Found Dead

Dad Involvement at an All Time High?

The At-Home Dad Convention convened this weekend in Omaha, bringing together more than 50 dads who have taken on home front duties that have been traditionally reserved for moms. 

Is that really so odd any more?

It seems like every year I see the same stories: “Dads actually, get this, do stuff around the house — amazing!” But this year, the tone seems different, at least if you’re reading the Omaha World Herald. Continue reading »

More People Who Shouldn’t Have a Kid

It’s about time we checked back in with www.WhytheF***doyouhaveakid.com, because as long as their are still people having kids there will be people who should not be having kids.

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Best of FameCrawler - Week of September 11th

Joel and Nicole Tweet About Baby Sparrow

Pamela Anderson Doesn’t Wear Sunscreen

Jon Gosselin’s Actions are Hurting His Children

President Obama’s Speech - What It’s About

Janet Jackson Talks About Losing Michael, Adopting Kids

Barack Obama and the First Family Take Fitness Seriously

Tony Hawk and Family Tweet for Toronto

Whitney Houston Came This Close to Selling Churros

Oasis - Why They Split

Nicole Richie Gives Birth to a Boy!

Confirmed - Katherine Heigl is Adopting

Demi to Perez: Tallulah’s Off-Limits, Creep!

Coming Soon: House Husbands of Hollywood

Fox wants a piece of the stay-of-home pie.  Their answer to Bravo’s popular Real Housewives of [fill in blank] franchise is the upcoming House Husbands of Hollywood.

Premiering on August 15th, the show follows the day to day lives of five stay at home husbands whose wives lead successful lives in Los Angeles.

They stroll babies, change diapers, cook, clean and occasionally complain about being “kept”. The episodes are sprinkled with material tension, materialism and seemingly depicting the struggles of retaining their ‘manhood’.  Once an aspiring actor, dad Grant says, Continue reading »

The Babble Do-It-Myself Guide

Today on Babble:

“The Babble Do-It-Myself Guide”

How to float, swing, tie your shoes, blow your nose, and be a kid.

By Allison Pennell.

Read it here.

Michael Jackson IS the Real Dad: Proof

The recurring theme in headlines in the last few days? They all claim Michael Jackson is not the dad of his kids.

But he was. And not just in a legal sense. Continue reading »

Dads? At home? Inconceivable!

You know Father’s Day is right around the corner when the traditional media begins focusing on the fact that one half of the parenting team actually, well, does stuff. This year stay-at-home dads seem to be in the news quite a bit, and while there have been some truly ground-breaking stories on this rising trend — take Jeremy Adams Smith’s “The Daddy Shift” book for example — mostly the media take on the subject has offered just more of the same tired, wide-eyed, who’d-a-thunk-it-ness.

Dads? At home? Go figure! Continue reading »