Books of Interest to Stay-At-Home Dads
| Author | Title | Description | Pub Date | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeremy Adam Smith | The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family | It's a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? | 6/1/2009 | 978-080702120-0 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| T.J.McKenna | Caution: Men at House Work | What really happens when it's dad who deals with the diapers? Just about anything! Stay at home dads have found their chronicler in T.J. McKenna (pen name for Tim McCutcheon). | 3/17/2009 | 0982193254 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| W. Dale Cramer | Summer of Light | Mick Brannigan, a working-class stiff, goes from breadwinner to stay-at-home dad to his disabled son. | 2/1/2007 | 0764229966 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| Andrea Doucet | Do Men Mother? : Fatherhood, Care, and Domestic Responsibility | From the publisher: More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother? provides groundbreaking evidence of dramatic changes in mothering and fathering in Canada. | 11/4/2006 | 0802085466 (Amazon, ) |
| Austin Murphy | How Tough Could it Be? The Trials and Errors of a Sportswriter Turned Stay-at-Home Dad | He's got a K and a 3rd grader for a 6 mo. experiment. Truly funny in parts. His wife actively tries to trip him up... | 5/12/2005 | 0805078460 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| Tom Perrotta | Little Children: A Novel | This book includes a character who is a stay-at-home dad, but it is not at all about being a stay-at-home dad. I include it simply because it was a bestseller. It has also been made into a movie. | 1/1/2005 | 0312315732 (Amazon, ) |
| Peter Baylies, Jessica Toonkel | The Stay-at-Home Dad Handbook | 10/1/2004 | 1556525346 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) | |
| Bruce Stockler | I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets | Stockler, a columnist for Esquire, offers frank and funny scenes from his life with triplets from before birth to around age four. Compounding the insanity is a two-year-old son and a wife who works more than 80 hours a week. After losing his job, he becomes a stay-at-home dad and describes life with his kids as "a miniature Cirque du Soleil" and "a breakaway republic." | 6/1/2004 | 0312315295 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| Ad Hudler | Househusband | 4/27/2004 | 0345470621 (Amazon, ) | |
| Hogan Hilling | The Man Who Would Be Dad | Press Release | 11/1/2003 | 1931868662 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| Todd Pinsky, Jerry Dolezal (Illustrator) | Homedaddy: Little White Lies and Other Tales from the Crib | With intellectual wit and a keen eye for the absurd, Todd Pinsky chronicles his adventures as a stay-home father and serves up a refreshing and wickedly funny alternative to "Mr. Mom" stereotypes of bumbling, clueless dads. (From the publisher.) | 9/1/2003 | 0972824405 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| David Eddie | Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home Dad | Mostly comedy. Autobiographical, with a little advice thrown in. | 5/6/2003 | 0641681305 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| Libby Gill | Stay-at-Home Dads: The Essential Guide to Creating the New Family | Lots of great information and advice. Written by a woman, though. | 8/28/2001 | 0452282748 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |
| Joeseph Oberle | Diary of a Mad Househusband: Musings on Life as a Stay-at-home Dad | 4/1/1996 | 0965074137 (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) | |
| Mike McGrady | The Kitchen Sink Papers: My Life As a Househusband | One guy's story about his life at home. He was a nationally syndicated columnist before becoming a househusband. | 11/1/1976 | 045107212X (Amazon, Barnes & Noble) |