Books of Interest to Stay-At-Home Dads

AuthorTitleDescriptionPub DateISBN
Jeremy Adam SmithThe Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American FamilyIt'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? 6/1/2009978-080702120-0
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T.J.McKennaCaution: Men at House WorkWhat 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).3/17/20090982193254
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W. Dale CramerSummer of LightMick Brannigan, a working-class stiff, goes from breadwinner to stay-at-home dad to his disabled son.2/1/20070764229966
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Andrea DoucetDo Men Mother? : Fatherhood, Care, and Domestic ResponsibilityFrom 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.11/4/20060802085466
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Austin Murphy How Tough Could it Be? The Trials and Errors of a Sportswriter Turned Stay-at-Home DadHe'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... 5/12/20050805078460
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Tom PerrottaLittle Children: A NovelThis 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.1/1/20050312315732
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Peter Baylies, Jessica ToonkelThe Stay-at-Home Dad Handbook10/1/20041556525346
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Bruce StocklerI Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After TripletsStockler, 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."6/1/20040312315295
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Ad Hudler Househusband 4/27/20040345470621
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Hogan HillingThe Man Who Would Be DadPress Release11/1/20031931868662
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Todd Pinsky, Jerry Dolezal (Illustrator)Homedaddy: Little White Lies and Other Tales from the CribWith 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.)9/1/20030972824405
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David Eddie Housebroken: Confessions of a Stay-at-Home DadMostly comedy. Autobiographical, with a little advice thrown in. 5/6/20030641681305
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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. 8/28/20010452282748
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Joeseph OberleDiary of a Mad Househusband: Musings on Life as a Stay-at-home Dad4/1/19960965074137
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Mike McGradyThe Kitchen Sink Papers: My Life As a HousehusbandOne guy's story about his life at home. He was a nationally syndicated columnist before becoming a househusband.11/1/1976045107212X
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