| Our Odd Couple Marriage Totally Works | Redbook Magazine | Aaron Traister | 11/27/2010 | From parenting the kids to tackling work-life balance, our guy columnist and his wife are on totally different pages. And he wouldn't want it any other way. Really. | PA: Philadelphia |
| Hail to the Breadwinner | Babble.com | Aaron Traister | 11/27/2010 | A stay-at-home dad praises working parents. | PA: Philadelphia |
| Stay-at-home McKinney dad isn't alone as recession hits men hard | Dallas Morning News | Eric Assen | 11/27/2010 | Chuck Shepard stands in his kitchen, in the middle of a tornado – his 5-year-old, Catherine, and 4-year-old, Jolie, run around him, laughing, as 2-year-old Caleb naps upstairs. But he's calm while reflecting on life as an unemployed stay-at-home dad. | TX: Dallas |
| Number of stay-at-home dads in Dallas on the rise | The Daily Mustang | Bridget Bennett | 11/16/2010 | The increase is due in part to the highest unemployment rate the country has seen in more than 25 years. | TX: Dallas |
| Monday, November 15, 2010 | CBS The Talk (daytime talk show) | | 11/15/2010 | Daily women's talk show on CBS tackles stay-at-home dads. Go to 30:30 (it's 30 minutes into the video). | |
| Japan’s Next Big Thing: Stay-at-Home Dads? | Wall Street Journal | Yoree Koh | 10/19/2010 | ...the latest in a spotty but growing effort in Japan to change the traditional attitude regarding gender roles that assume women stay at home and raise the kids while the men bring home the bacon. | JP: |
| Stay-at-home dads are finding it's not such a bad place to be | The Washington Post | Krista Jahnke | 10/16/2010 | When their preschooler was found to have with a degenerative eye condition, the Amicucci family of Troy, Mich., decided that one parent needed to stop working and stay home. Money matters made it clear that the stay-at-home parent should be John Amicucci. | MI: Troy |
| How (Not) to Treat a Stay-at-Home-Dad | New York Times | Lisa Belkin | 10/6/2010 | Matt Villano, a freelance writer and stay-at-home dad in Healdsburg, Calif., is getting used to being the only father in the room. He understands that there will always be mothers who will ignore him, as they cluster together on the other end of the playground. | CA: Healdsburg |
| The True Story of a Stay-At-Home Dad | O Magazine | Sean Elder | 9/22/2010 | Sean Elder reports on the ups, downs, grievances, little joys, and nagging ambivalence of house-husbandry. | |
| The shocking new normalcy of the stay-at-home dad | Salon | Aaron Traister | 7/20/2010 | Even in my blue-collar neighborhood, my parenting role is no big deal. Who said social change was always slow? | PA: Philadelphia |
| Meet Mike Jackson, stay-at-home dad | The Orange County Register | THERESA WALKER | 7/1/2010 | Mike Jackson of Aliso Viejo is up to his shoulders in diapers and other laundry these days as a stay-at-home dad to four stepchildren and a 4-month-old of his own. | CA: Aliso Viejo |
| Growing Numbers for Stay-At-Home Dads | CBSNewsOnline | | 6/17/2010 | The census says there are 158-thousand stay at home dads in the u.s. and the number is growing. Whit Johnson reports. | |
| Daunting Task for Mr. Mom: Get a Job | Wall Street Journal | SUE SHELLENBARGER | 5/19/2010 | Outnumbered and Often Isolated, At-Home Dads Face an Extra-Hard Slog Back Into the Work Force | |
| Tips for At-Home Dads Heading Back to Work | Wall Street Journal | Sue Shellenbarger | 5/18/2010 | Outnumbered 5 to 1 by at-home moms, men who stay home with the kids face a bigger stigma among employers when they try to return to the workforce, and they have fewer opportunities to network from home. | |
| Dave FM’s Jimmy Baron gives ‘Dads Between Gigs’ a way to bond | Atlanta Journal Constitution | Rodney Ho | 5/3/2010 | So when he came to Dave FM, he had an idea to help out all those stay-at-home dads, some who are in that position by choice, some because of the lousy economy. He held his first event last month at a Monkey Joe’s. I checked out the second one at Hammond Park last week. About 25 to 30 guys popped by with their kids. | GA: Atlanta |
| WIFE THINKS STAY-AT-HOME DAD NEEDS TO GET UP AND GO | Universal Uclick | Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby) | 3/31/2010 | I have been married to "Roy" for 27 years. For the past 14, he has been a stay-at-home dad. He took on the primary job of raising our two kids, now ages 13 and 16, while my career soared. The problem is, we never agreed to this arrangement. | |
| Role Reversal: Dad Stays-at-Home, Mom Works | Dr. Laura | | 2/22/2010 | Whart are the psychological effects on the children if Dad stays-at-home and Mom goes to work? | |
| Why Househusbands Are the Future | New York Times | DAVID BROOKS AND GAIL COLLINS | 2/17/2010 | Sure, men should stay home more, but evolutionary psychology suggests that women are just more nurturing. | |
| Moms as sole breadwinners reach all-time high | Denver Post | | 1/16/2010 | The number of working moms who are the sole breadwinners in their families rose last year to an all-time high, and the number of stay-at-home dads edged higher, in a shift of traditional gender roles caused partly by massive job losses. Read more: Moms as sole breadwinners reach all-time high. | CO: Denver |
| In a gender shift, more moms become breadwinners | Houston Chronicle | Hope Yen | 1/15/2010 | The number of working moms who are the sole breadwinners in their families rose last year to an all-time high, and the number of stay-at-home dads edged higher, in a shift of traditional gender roles caused partly by massive job losses. | TX: Houston |
| Money Changes Everything | Babble.com | Nell Casey | 1/14/2010 | If Mom earns more than Dad, who changes the diapers? | |
| Stay at Home Dads | Parents Magazine | | 12/15/2009 | Stay at home dads discuss their role in raising their children and we hear how they feel about the role reversal. | |
| Is my kids making me not smart? | Salon | Aaron Traister | 12/4/2009 | Stay-at-home fatherhood dulls my intellect to a nub. Excuse me while I ponder the subtext of "Hippos Go Berserk" | PA: Philadelphia |
| It's the men's turn: 'Househusbands of Hollywood' worth staying home for | New York Daily News | David Hinckley | 8/14/2009 | That's ironic because this show tackles a genuinely interesting issue: how high-achieving men cope with what society sees as demoting themselves by staying home while their wives earn the family money. | NY: New York |
| Crisis increases number of US stay-at-home dads | RussiaToday | | 8/14/2009 | The financial crisis seems to be changing the traditional gender roles in some US families, as more and more men prefer to become stay-at-home dads, thus increasing their number in the country to 150,000 | |
| Househusbands of Hollywood’ on Fox Reality | New York Times | BROOKS BARNES | 8/10/2009 | So it goes for the beleaguered househusbands, five men who stay at home, reluctantly, while their high-powered wives (at least in the minds of the show’s creators) pursue successful careers. | NY: New York |
| Daddy's home - all the time | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Shawn Clubb | 8/7/2009 | Stay-at-home dads find satisfaction, challenges in reversing roles | MO: St. Louis |
| Daddy's home — all the time | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Shawn Clubb | 7/21/2009 | Stay-at-home dads find satisfaction, challenges in reversing roles | MO: St. Louis |
| 80% Increase of Stay-At-Home Dads This Year | USPContent | | 7/13/2009 | Lorraine Thomas, Tesco Baby & Toddler Club Expert, discusses a new generation of parenting. | |
| STAY AT HOME DADS ON NBC BAY AREA | NBC BAY AREA | | 7/7/2009 | Television interview | CA: San Fransisco |
| Real Parenting: Dad takes buyout to stay home with kids | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Aisha Sultan | 7/4/2009 | Now he feels a lot closer to his two children and is working on a video editing business. | MO: St. Louis |
| 'Dad' is a full-time job | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Aisha Sultan | 6/21/2009 | Some who lose paid work revel in parenting; others chafe in role. | MO: St. Louis |
| When every day is Father's Day | The Orange County Register | Erika Chavez | 6/19/2009 | Segesser is one of 5.1 million people who have lost their job in the recession... | CA: Costa Mesa |
| ls eml stayathomedad 1a.JPG | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Erik M. Lunsford | 6/16/2009 | fter twelve years at Chrysler, mechanical engineer Rehan Farooq decided it was wiser to take a buyout than risk a layoff at the company. | MO: St. Louis |
| Dude, man up and start acting like a mom | Salon | Aaron Traister | 6/9/2009 | How I learned to stop sulking and embrace my life as a stay-at-home father | PA: Philadelphia |
| Support for stay-at-home dads | Portland Oregonian | Noelle Crombie | 5/4/2009 | Being a stay-at-home mom can be lonely. But "it's even more isolating for stay-at-home dads. | OR: Portland |
| Stay-at-home dads increase with job losses | Denver Post | Carlos Alcala | 4/23/2009 | The weak economy and social attitudes are making this rare occurrence more common than in decades past. Read more: Stay-at-home dads increase with job losses. | CO: Denver |
| stay at home dads house bill | KOMU-8 news in Missouri | | 3/11/2009 | This is a story for KOMU-8 news about a bill proposed in the Missouri house which would give money to stay-at-home mothers to raise their children. Fathers would not be eligible because Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-O'Fallon) says only mothers can be "natural nurturers". The story received quite the response from stay-at-home dads nationwide. | MO: |
| Stay-at-home-dads take offense to scholarship just for moms | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Roseann Moring | 2/26/2009 | It has come to my attention that she specifically wants to exclude stay at home fathers because we are “not good nurturers” and we are unequipped to give birth or breastfeed. Those are her sole arguments for the exclusion... | MO: St. Louis |
| With recession, more mommy breadwinners abound | Denver Post | Patrick May | 2/25/2009 | Mistor, like other laid-off men interviewed for this story, says his stay-at-home status "is a mixed blessing". | CA: San Jose |
| Daddy's Home, and a Bit Lost | New York Times | Peg Tyre | 1/9/2009 | So Scott and Tracey Berry have faced a complex series of choices about work, money and the roles and responsibilities each would assume in the family. | CT: Darien |
| Dads On Duty | Wall Street Journal | Melody Lan | 12/9/2008 | Last month, 17 dads attended the 13th annual At-Home Dads Convention in Sacramento, Calif. Despite the conference's dwindling numbers, the number of fathers who have opted to become their family's primary caregiver is increasing. | |
| Being a Stay-at-Home Dad | Supernanny website | Paul Smith | 10/4/2008 | An increasing number of men are taking on the role of main carer for their children and becoming stay at home dads. Paul Smith is one of them. He looks at why the number of home-dads is growing and offers his advice... | UK: |
| Stay-at-Home Dads | Oprah Radio | | 8/11/2008 | The Peetes talk about the growing trend and share their thoughts on the topic. | |
| Stay-At-Home Dads Form Group | WBAL-11 Baltimore | | 7/9/2008 | Some local dads solved the problem of feeling uncomfortable joining stay-at-home moms groups -- they formed a playgroup of their own. | MD: Baltimore |
| Being Mr. Mom: Fun and lonely, all at once | The Associated Press | | 6/14/2008 | Mike Biewenga, a stay-at-home dad for the last four years, noticed something funny when he took his daughter to story time at a nearby library. Gathered around the reader in a circle, mothers sat farther from him than from other moms. | NY: |
| Fathers figure in: More and more dads are actively involved in their children's lives | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Scott Bandle | 6/11/2008 | Ruffino works part-time as a X-ray technician during the summer. However, when school is in session, he's home full time. He covers all of the domestic bases, including cooking and cleaning. | MO: St. Louis |
| Stay-at-home dads remain a rarity | St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Scott Bandle | 6/10/2008 | Society still frowns on changing traditional roles | MO: St. Louis |
| Austin Stay-at-Home group | Today Show | Matt Lauer | 4/2/2008 | Dr. Aaron Rochlen of UTexas, Brian Reid, and the Austin Stay-at-Home Dads group | TX: Austin |
| 21st century Mr. Moms break old standard | Medill Reports Washington | Priya Sridhar | 2/12/2008 | Marcus Zumwalt says goodbye to his wife as she leaves for work. Sarah Zumwalt works at one of D.C.'s top law firms, while Marcus stays at home with the kids. | DC: Washington |
| Parenting from a dad's-eye view | The Orange County Register | NIKKI BATALIS | 12/3/2007 | Hogan Hilling is a man on a mission. The stay-at-home father of three sons has a message for moms: Dads care, dads are competent, give them a break - and give them a chance. | CA: Newport Beach |
| Employment: Families creating new career models | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Barbara Rose, Chicago Tribune | 6/24/2007 | Steve Stephenson's daughter was 6 months old in 2000 when he and his wife, Angela, decided one of them should quit work to stay home with their baby. | IL: Chicago |
| Stay-at-Home Dads Forge New Identities, Roles | Washington Post | Katherine Shaver | 6/17/2007 | It could have been any play group in the Washington area, except for the diaper bags. | DC: Washington |
| Full-time dads worth six figures | Denver Post | Al Lewis | 6/17/2007 | Salary.com surveyed more than 6,500 dads to determine the top 10 functions of their jobs, which came down to day-care teacher, computer operator, general maintenance worker, cook, van driver, facilities manager, psychologist, CEO, groundskeeper and laundry machine operator. It then ascribed market value to those functions. | CO: Denver |
| Find dollars to care for disabled kids | Des Moines Register | | 5/16/2007 | Richard Martarano is a stay-at-home dad while his wife works outside the home. Retired from the Army, the Burlington man spends all day, every day, with his 18-month-old son, Kolton. | IA: Des Moines |
| Stay-home father leads by example | Herald Sun | Nikki Protyniak | 5/15/2007 | PAUL Sullivan isn't your average dad. The Williamstown father of three's devotion to his young brood officially puts most other men to shame. | Australia: Melbourne |
| Mr. Moms: the changing face of stay-at-home parents | Summit Daily News | LORY POUNDER | 3/11/2007 | "We decided that I should stay at home because my wife has a better job," Jones said with a smile. "It just worked out that I should be Mr. Mom." And he is not alone in that. In fact, Jones is part of an increasing number of dads playing a larger role as caregivers. | CO: Summit County |
| Mr. Mom Stay at Home Dads | WGBA NBC-26 | Willie Garrett | 3/5/2007 | A growing number of dads, are choosing to raise kids while their wives go off to work. In this day in age... you wouldn't think it would be an issue...not everyone is on-board. Bonnie Kirschman shows us how some local families are making it work for them. | WI: Green Bay |
| Everymom: One super dad’s life set a precedent | Northwest Herald | Jami Kunzer | 3/3/2007 | Their dad, Zane Westfall of Crystal Lake, died suddenly at the age of 43. He was a stay-at-home father... | IL: McHenry County |
| Problems Without Solutions: SAHDS | The Colbert Report | Stephen Colbert | 3/1/2007 | | |
| Stay-at-home dads find the benefits are priceless | Appleton Post-Crescent | Gina Mangan | 3/1/2007 | If on a Tuesday afternoon you see a dad choosing fruit in a grocery aisle while refereeing a couple of small kids, you might think it's his day off work. | WI: Appleton |
| Daddy day care | Courier-Mail | Graham Readfearn | 2/27/2007 | THIS was not a comfortable place for a man to be in, but by now I should have been getting used to it. As the only dad in a room of about 40 mothers, I felt like an intruder into some kind of women-only society meeting. | Australia: |
| GRAY MATTER: Stay-home dads wear many hats | Holmen Courier | Tim Gray | 2/15/2007 | Some people have asked me what I do for a living other than write. My job doesn’t pull in $50,000 a year. In fact, my job doesn’t bring in any money, but it does bring rewards no outside-the-home career can offer. I’m a stay-at-home dad. With this job, memories and experiences are more than enough pay for me. | WI: Holmen |
| On the Cover: Reversing Roles | Arizona State University Web Devil | Amanda Fruzynski | 2/8/2007 | He changes the oil. He fixes things around the house and paints the spare bedroom. Maybe, if he has time, he catches the football game. But Dan Helt, 37, has more household responsibilities than the occasional Sunday afternoon fix-it project. | AZ: Tempe |
| She earns more, and that's OK | Los Angeles TImes | Molly Selvin | 2/4/2007 | As education and job market patterns shift, more women are becoming breadwinners. Many husbands are fine with that. | CA: Los Angeles |
| Why I Left My Beta Husband | MSN Lifestyle: Women | Amy Brayfield | 2/3/2007 | What I didn't have was a husband I felt proud of. | |
| A Breadwinner Rethinks Gender Roles | New York Times | M.P. DUNLEAVEY | 1/27/2007 | The real challenge is navigating the kinds of financial and emotional issues that you can’t enter into a calculator or plug into a spreadsheet. | NY: New York |
| Viewfinder: Divided duties, shared love | Albuquerque Tribune | Craig Fritz | 1/22/2007 | It never occurred to Trout Rogers that he was doing anything out of the ordinary when he and his partner, Jennifer, decided to share the responsibility of caring for their daughter, Bemsha, 3, at home. It's what he has always done. | NM: Albuquerque |
| Dad’s Motorcycle Diary | New York Times: The City | IVOR HANSON | 1/21/2007 | I’m also not drumming in bands, and apart from the occasional Saturday job, I’m not cleaning windows, my longtime day job. Instead, as Annika’s full-time stay-at-home dad, I take my daughter to the library and play dates, on errands and to the playground. My new day job — no surprise — is the antithesis of the motorcycle escape or the rock star life. | NY: New York |
| Why I Love My Alpha Wife | MSN Lifestyle: Men | Joel Rose | 1/15/2007 | | |
| Stay-at-home dad thrilled with new job, responsibilities | Winnipeg Free Press | Sharon Adams | 1/6/2007 | WESLEY KONRAD has traded his computer chips for baby crackers, his out-of-town trips for jaunts to the museum, interrupting his technical career for a stint as a stay-at-home dad while his wife Helen brings home the bacon. | Canada: Winnipeg |
| Help for dads who rule the roost | Yahoo!7 (Australia) | Chris Simond | 1/4/2007 | A growing number of fathers are choosing to stay at home, taking over the housework and child-rearing duties as their wives head off to work. | Australia: |
| Who's the daddy? | The Daily Telegraph | John Perry | 12/31/2006 | A growing number of fathers are raising children while their wives go out to work. But don't go thinking that makes them unmanly, says John Perry | England: |
| Bartender wins job at Arnold's | Cincinnati Enquirer | JANE PRENDERGAST | 12/24/2006 | Arnold's Bar and Grill is Cincinnati's oldest bar. In the same spot on Eighth Street downtown for 145 years, Arnold's is a Cincinnati original. So when owner Ronda Androski needed a full-time bartender, she wanted somebody who understood the bar's place and relevance in the city. She found Eric Evans, an Arnold's fan for a decade, who is stay-at-home dad by day and now a bartender by night. | OH: Cincinnati |
| In the Workplace: How to explain gap in employment after being at-home dad | Pensacola News Journal | Kris Thoma | 12/21/2006 | How can a stay-at-home dad find his way back into the work force? | FL: Pensacola |
| Nightline (ABC News) | | 12/21/2006 | Can anyone get me a (legal) video of this? | |
| Hey, this is hard work | The Age (Australia) | Sacha Molitorisz | 12/20/2006 | TAKING SIX WEEKS of paternity leave sounded like such a relaxing, refreshing notion. | Australia: |
| A chef of their own | Trenton Times | BETH E. FAND | 12/13/2006 | Beyer said goodbye to that lifestyle when his family closed the restaurant a few years ago, but he held onto the ideals he'd learned growing up in the rooms above it. There was nothing more important than raising a family, he knew, so the father of two decided to retire and become a stay-at-home dad. | NJ: Trenton |
| Mommy Wars: A New Chapter | ABC News - Health | Melanie Killen and Stephanie Sinno | 12/13/2006 | Moms Are OK at Work or at Home, but Dads Still Face Sterotypes | |
| Lunch with Marjorie: Making a valid choice to be a stay-at-home dad—part two | Rock River Times | Marjorie Stradinger | 12/12/2006 | Jim Maier and his wife decided he would be a stay-at-home parent when his son was born. Then, he founded Rockford Dads. Here is part two of his story. | IL: Rockford |
| Lunch with Marjorie: Making a valid choice to be a stay-at-home dad—part one | Rock River Times | Marjorie Stradinger | 12/5/2006 | Jim Maier wanted to tell me about Rockford Dads, a group he started after deciding to be the stay-at-home parent in his household. | IL: Rockford |
| Fathers as mothers — there's a difference | Ottawa Citizen | Anne Marie Owens | 11/10/2006 | The author of a new book about fathering says men’s reality is at such a remove from the conventional image that she wonders whether the term “stay-at-home dad” is even relevant anymore. | Canada: Ottawa |
| Stay At Home Dads | KEYE (CBS42) TV (Austin, TX) | | 11/2/2006 | A group of Austin stay at home dads join together for play dates and dad time. | TX: Austin |
| Dads dive into the stay-at-home role | ParentMap | Elaine Bowers | 9/1/2006 | Stephanie Coontz, professor of history and family studies at Evergreen State College in Olympia, says the idea of dads assuming the role of primary caregiver has become more accepted but "acceptability of a behavior lags behind translating it into behavior. | WA: Seattle |
| Full-Time Dad and Fine With It | San Fransisco Chronicle | Peter Hartlaub | 7/23/2006 | Faced with taking care of a child alone, many a father will wait until he reaches the brink of just-me-and-the-baby insanity before making an Internet search and finding more of his kind. | CA: San Fransisco |
| Dads blaze trails from kitchen to living room | The Orange County Register | | 7/20/2006 | In most households, the parent most likely to be responsible for this scenario would be a stay-at-home mom. In this Ladera Ranch home, however, it's stay-at-home dad Christopher Nally who's in charge. | CA: Ladera Ranch |
| Channel 8 Daybreak Interview | WFAA TV (Dallas/Fort Worth, TX) | | 7/4/2006 | Who's heading into work tomorrow; the dad, or the mom in your family? | TX: Dallas/Fort Worth |
| Dads blaze trails from kitchen to living room | Orange County Register | YVETTE CABRERA | 6/20/2006 | In most households, the parent most likely to be responsible for this scenario would be a stay-at-home mom. | CA: Orange County |
| Tom Oliver at the Ice House | You Tube | Tom Oliver | 6/19/2006 | Tom Oliver is a stay-at-home dad and stand-up comedian. | |
| Don't call him Mr. Mom | Lawrence Journal-World (KS) | Mindie Paget | 6/18/2006 | Fathers raising children at home wouldn’t have it any other way | KS: Lawrence |
| 21st-century dads turn to blogs for help | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Paul Nyhan | 6/17/2006 | 21st-century dads turn to blogs for helpFather's Day in a Modern World: Computer and burp rags replace pipe and slippers. | WA: Seattle |
| The Freaks of Father's Day | AlterNet | Jeremy Adam Smith | 6/16/2006 | Feminism has given women more freedom and men the opportunity to be stay-at-home dads. But just how many Mr. Moms are out there? | |
| Survey: Almost Half of Dads Would Be Mr. Mom | CareerBuilder.com | Richard Castellini | 6/13/2006 | Trading in power lunches for PB&J and Wi-Fi for the Wiggles, four-in-ten working dads say they would stay at home and assume the role of Mr. Mom if their spouse or partner earned enough to support their families, according to CareerBuilder.com's “Working Dads 2006” survey. | |
| Two of Me Now: Ups and Downs of a Stay-at-Home Dad | The Noe Valley Voice | Jeremy Adam Smith | 6/1/2006 | | CA: San Fransisco |
| More Dads Staying Home to Care for Kids | Today Show | Allen Levy (producer), presented by Ann Curry, featuring dads from our group in Seattle | 5/15/2006 | Remember that movie Mr. Mom, where Micheal Keaton finds out that being a stay-at-home mom isn't so easy? Well, more and more mothers are heading off to work, and dads are giving up their careers to become the primary care-givers of their children... | WA: Seattle |
| Stay-home fathers figure out their new full-time job | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Paul Nyhan | 4/25/2006 | They were carpenters, legislative aides, software engineers, real estate investors and teachers. Now, they are stay-at-home dads, part of the growing posse of men who left paying work to raise their kids.... | WA: Seattle |
| Radio Interview | KOMO 1000 AM | KOMO 1000 interview with Scotty Crane, one of our dads. | 4/25/2006 | Radio interview with one of our dads. You have to save the WMA file to your hard disk, and then play it, don't know why. | WA: Seattle |
| Tips for a stay-at-home dad returning to work and chasing careers. | Columbus Dispatch | Samantha Nolan | 3/21/2006 | Dear Sam: I have primarily been a stay-at-home dad for seven years with a part time job in retail for the past six. In the fall, I will be reentering the work force full time... | OH: Columbus |
| Other Voices: Stay-at-home moms, look at the message you are sending | Seattle Post-Intelligencer | PAUL SUNDSTROM | 2/24/2006 | I am a stay-at-home dad who cares for my two young sons. My wife calls me a "maninist" -- as opposed to a "feminist" -- and says I may be reading too much into my experiences in Seattle. | WA: Seattle |
| From Financial Aid to Fatherhood | The Chronicle of Higher Education | David Latessa | 10/19/2005 | As I dance with my 6-month-old daughter to coax her into a nap and afford me time to write the column that I have been procrastinating, I wonder what I would be doing now if I had not recently left New Haven, Conn., and a job at Yale University for Westfield, N.J., and the position of temporary stay-at-home dad. | |
| Stay-At-Home Dad Makes Extra Cash | KCCI TV (Des Moines, IA) | Angie Hunt | 10/18/2005 | The decision parents make to stay home and raise their children is paying off for some central Iowans. | IA: Des Moines |
| Burnout victim finds therapy as stay-at-home dad | azcentral.com | | 9/6/2005 | Six years ago, David New traded places with his wife and became a stay-at-home dad. There weren't many dads leaving their professions to mop floors, do laundry and cook meals for their families. For New, who had a successful career in occupational therapy, it brought challenges but also less stress. | AZ: |
| Q: I'm a stay-at-home dad and I'm feeling very isolated. What can I do? | azcentral.com | Armin Brott | 8/16/2005 | I'm a stay-at-home dad and I'm feeling very isolated. I take my son with me to parks and other places where there are lots of other children but I never seem to connect with any of the other parents. I'm not sure whether it's because I'm shy or because I'm a man. What can I do? | AZ: |
| When Daddy stays home: Former salesman starting county-wide fathers' group | Nassau County Herald | Scott Brinton | 6/23/2005 | Two and a half years ago, Doug Goldstein became a stay-at-home dad. The 34-year-old Valley Stream resident is among a growing number of fathers who are leaving their jobs to care for their children. | NY: Nassau County |
| It is a lot harder than I expected: dads' stories | Seattle Times | Stephanie Dunnewind, our favorite Seattle Times staff reporter | 6/18/2005 | From dads who opted to stay home with kids from their birth to others who fell into the job after getting laid off, fathers from a South... | WA: Seattle |
| Stay-at-home dads connect in groups | Seattle Times | Stephanie Dunnewind, our favorite Seattle Times staff reporter | 6/18/2005 | It's a play group for kids with stay-at-home dads, but don't expect parenting angst. It's guy talk — as much as guys can when they're... | WA: Seattle |
| Stay-at-home dads | Puget Sound Business Journal | | 6/17/2005 | Terry Anderson is a professional artist and designer. But these days, he is more likely to be up to his elbows in messy finger paint than brushing strokes on his own canvas. | WA: Bellevue |
| More dads want to be Mr. Mom | CNN & CareerBuilder | Kate Lorenz | 6/17/2005 | Today's working dads aren't just satisfied with being Ward Cleaver -- they also want to be Mr. Mom. Although the traditional idea of "dad as breadwinner" remains common, working fathers are becoming more focused on their family lives. | |
| Daddy's home to stay | USA Today | Sharon Jayson | 6/15/2005 | It's 8:30 p.m., and Michael Paranzino is wrapping up another day on the job. He has just said goodnight to his 4-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter, ending a day filled with lots of smiles, a few tears and a meltdown. | |
| Just for Dad | CNN | Dr. Sanjay Gupta | 6/13/2005 | I can't find a video record of this, just a transcript. The segment is about 3/4 of the way into the document. Someone find me the video! | |
| Relationship Tips | USAWeekend.com | Stephanie Oakes | 5/29/2005 | I'm a stay-at-home dad who considers himself a "desperate househusband." Although my wife makes an unbelievable amount of money, she's always on the road, never home for our two kids and me. While I'm proud of what she has achieved and I love her very much, lately I find myself rejecting her lovemaking advances when she drops in between business trips. What's going on here? | |
| Just Call Me “Dad” | Northwest Baby and Child Newspaper | Brian Kantz | 3/1/2005 | I may be a tad sensitive to this staying-at-home-with-the-baby thing... | WA: Seattle |
| More Dads Take Stay-At-Home Route | WFTV | | 2/23/2005 | The job comes without a paycheck. The hours are long. The rewards can be priceless. | DC: Washington |
| Stay-At-Home Dads: More Men Go From Boardroom to Playroom | WRC TV, NBC (Washington, DC) | | 2/21/2005 | The job comes without a paycheck. The hours are long. The rewards can be priceless. | DC: Washington |
| Stay-at-Home Dads Who Love Being 'Mr. Mom' | St. Louis Commerce Magazine | Bill Beggs Jr. | 2/1/2005 | In the household of Joel and Megan Bittle and three-month-old Clara, Joel brings home the bacon—he says, tongue firmly planted in cheek. Since Joel does the grocery shopping, if bacon’s on the list it comes home with the diapers, wipes, formula and all the other necessities for keeping an infant—and her parents—healthy and happy. | MO: St. Louis |
| More dads are staying at home | Seattle Times (Syndicated) | Amy Joyce, the Life At Work columnist at the Washington Post | 1/2/2005 | This is a typical day in the life of Louch, who decided to become one of 105,000 stay-at-home dads with children under the age of 15... | WA: Seattle |
| Profile: Jason Kauflin | MKE | Bob Purvis | 12/30/2004 | This is not your father's moms' group. | WI: Milwaukee |
| Housewives, Try This for Desperation | New York Times | Jennifer Medina | 12/22/2004 | This article caused a veritable firestorm of comment in the stay-at-home dad community. | NY: New York |
| PTAs seek Hands-on dads | Seattle Times | Stephanie Dunnewind, Seattle Times staff reporter | 9/9/2004 | The front page of the Living section included a story about a couple of dads that are involved in their Parent-Teacher Associations. The Washington State PTA hopes to get them more male company with a new initiative this year pushing father involvement in schools. | WA: Seattle |
| Support for stay at home dads | News8Austin TV (Austin, TX) | PARENTING Magazine | 8/22/2004 | It's a trend that's picking up in terms of popularity -- dads staying home to care for the kids, while mothers go to work. More dads in Austin are getting on board with a new group designed to cater to the needs of Mr. Mom. | TX: Austin |
| Stay-at-home dads cherish their role | Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle | Chris Swingle | 6/20/2004 | They endure rigors of manning the homefront and emerge as special men | NY: Rochester |
| Today's dads not your father's father | Pittsburgh Tribune -Review | Alyson Walls | 6/20/2004 | The men, who serve as primary caregivers for their children, are part of a new generation of dads taking a more active role in all facets of their children's lives. | PA: Pittsburgh |
| Mr. Mom of Baxter | Brainerd Dispatch | JODIE TWEED | 6/19/2004 | In a role reversal, father cares for children while his wife works outside the home | MN: Brainerd |
| Stay-at-home dad wins at crosswords | Am. Crossword Puzzle Tournament Newsletter | Linda Blaser | 5/6/2004 | As a bit of a lark, John Old of Gurnee, who has done crossword puzzles since the age of 5, recently flew across five states to land a surprising third-place finish in his category in the 27th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Stamford, Conn. | |
| Making Time Tick | Seattle Times | Sherry Stripling, Seattle Times staff reporter | 4/4/2004 | With help from a life coach, busy Bob Miyamoto finds balance. This story is not about a stay-at-home dad, but describes a guy who realized that he needed to take more time for his kids and family, and spend less time at work. | WA: Seattle |
| House Husband | Guideposts | Patrick Borders | 12/22/2003 | I was the man of the house, the breadwinner, wasn't I? | GA: Duluth |
| Stay-at-Home Dads: Putting Their Kids First | Better Homes and Gardens | James McCommons | 10/28/2003 | In the two years prior to their son Cameron's birth, they paid off bills, downsized their automobiles, and generally weaned themselves to one income. When it was time for one of them to stay at home, Christopher quit his job and became the primary caregiver. | |
| Stay-at-home fathers hit a record high | The Scotsman | Gavin Wilson | 10/26/2003 | There are now a record number of Scottish fathers opting to become a stay-at-home dad, with an estimated 20,000 having turned their back on the world of work, according to new figures. | Scotland: |
| Can you afford a stay-at-home husband? | MSN Money | M.P. DUNLEAVEY | 7/1/2003 | I've been pondering, tracking, scrutinizing the "stay-at-home husband" trend for several months now. And I've got to say: I'm lovin' the idea. | |
| Stay-at-home fathers now proudly fight convention | Milwaukee Journal Sentinal | Jim Cryns | 6/18/2003 | When you meet a couple watching over their children in a park, you can no longer assume it's the woman who spends her days at home with the kids. These days, more and more fathers are taking on the role of stay-at-home parent. | WI: Milwaukee |
| When dads clean house, it pays off big time | UC Riverside | Scott Coltrane and Michele Adams | 6/10/2003 | UC Riverside sociologists say men likely to have better behaved children and wives who find them more sexually attractive | CA: Riverside |
| Beyond tantrum control: Stay-at-home dads face health risks | CNN | Rhonda Rowland | 4/25/2003 | Researchers looking into lifestyle and heart disease links came across a surprising finding. | |
| Mr Mums | Yahoo!7 (Australia) | Jackie Quist | 10/3/2002 | It's a classic case of role reversal: Dad stays home to care for the children and the house while Mum heads out to work but the househusbands you're about to meet wouldn't have it any other way. | Australia: |
| Stay-at-Home Dads: A Practical Solution to the | Newsday | Glenn Sacks | 5/22/2002 | For women willing to shoulder this burden themselves, replacing the two-earner couple with a female breadwinner and a stay-at-home dad (SAHD) can be an attractive option. I became a SAHD with the birth of my daughter four years ago, and the arrangement has benefited my family immensely. This column first appeared in Newsday (5/22/02). | |
| Recollections of a stay-at-home dad's staying power | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sally Kalson | 4/24/2002 | In the mid-1990s, there was a mystery man in my life. He called me at the office at irregular intervals -- sometimes weeks apart, sometimes months -- to talk about his days and his state of mind. | PA: Pittsburgh |
| Don't call them Mr. Mom | Baltimore Business Journal | Tina Johnson-Marcel | 3/8/2002 | Fathers forgo `traditional' roles, choose to stay at home with their kids | MD: Baltimore |
| Mr. Mom makes a difference in schools, community | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sarah Saine | 3/6/2002 | No, he's not a high-level corporate exec. He doesn't even hold a job with a paycheck. For the past seven years, Bondi, 43, of Baldwin Borough, has been a stay-at-home dad caring for his two children and evolving into a community leader. | PA: Pittsburgh |
| Look Who's Barefoot in the Kitchen | Business Week | | 9/17/2001 | In many ways, you could say Wilson has traded places with June Cleaver, becoming one of a new and growing breed of housewife--the househusband. | |
| Doing the dad thing: Real men stay at home | Greenville News | Cherl Allen | 8/6/2001 | It wasn't that Jeff Dumpert didn't want to socialize with the other parents, but he started to feel a bit out of place. The 31-year-old Greenville resident found himself surrounded by conversations about breast-feeding and fitting back into clothes after pregnancy. | SC: Greenville |
| THE MAIDS Aid 'Mr. Moms' Helpful Hints for Stay at Home Dads | The Maids International | | 2/13/2001 | The new "Mr. Mom" has arrived. | |
| The Stay-at-Home Dad | Christianity Today | Suzanne Woods Fisher | 11/24/2000 | Why some Christian couples are choosing to reverse roles and how it affects their marriage. | |
| These dads feel right at home | Cincinnati Enquirer | Cindy Kranz | 9/21/2000 | More fathers finding time to watch their children grow | OH: Cincinnati |
| Nanny shortage spikes salaries in Silicon Valley | CNN | | 7/10/2000 | In Silicon Valley, there's a shortage of good nannies. Some earn up to $20 an hour, and perks can include college tuition. It was enough to convince Art Margolis to be a stay-at-home dad. | |
| Many dads want involvement with their kids to go beyond the usual | Seattle Times | Stephanie Dunnewind, Seattle Times staff reporter | 6/17/2000 | Nonetheless, involved fathers, be they stay-at-home, non-custodial, working or step-dads, are still far from the norm, leaving many fathers feeling isolated. | WA: Seattle |
| Mr. Moms gain support from fellow dads | Traverse City Record-Eagle | MARTA HEPLER DRAHOS | 3/12/2000 | A support group has been created for the surprisingly high number of stay-at-home dads | MI: Traverse City |
| Full-time dads often struggle with respect | Fast Company Magazine | Tony Schwartz | 3/1/2000 | Full-time dads often struggle with respect -- getting it from others and having it for themselves | |
| Stay-at-home Dad | America The National Catholic Weekly | Thomas J. McCarthy | 2/26/2000 | This past year my wife and I grew weary of the vertiginous dance of dual-career parenting. In the end, I decided to surrender the professorial life in order to pursue nonacademic writing and be with my kids, who are one and three. | |
| A plan for stay-home dads | CNN Money | Martine Costello | 2/9/2000 | Give up your corner office for diapers, but don't forget your IRA | |
| At-Home Fathers Step Out to Find They Are Not Alone | New York Times | Rick Marin | 1/2/2000 | A day of seminars on topics like "At-Home Daddying . . . What Are Our Issues?" and "The Anatomy of a Working Mom's Brain" drew about 85 men from 20 states. | NY: New York |
| The Price Of That Dream: You'll Both Work | Seattle Times | Susan Ager, Detroit Free Press | 12/26/1999 | "A recent Roper poll reveals that half of teenage boys expect a stay-at-home wife, while four of 10 teenage girls say their husbands will stay home to raise the children." What are those girls thinking??? | WA: Seattle |
| Iron Daddy | Salon | Kevin Trotter | 9/8/1999 | This stay-at-home dad found that waiting for a call back from La Leche League is tougher than hanging out in an office all day. | |
| Stay-Home Dad Loses Kids To Working Mom | Seattle Times, Business | Dave Bryan, AP | 7/16/1999 | A woman would never be asked 'Why don't you have a job?' " said the lawyer, Ellen Lyons. | WA: Seattle |
| Stay-at-Home Dad | Dollar Stretcher | Lucynda Koesters | 12/7/1998 | For Kathy and Don Walz of Delaware, it's a one-income lifestyle with a twist: Dad, not Mom, stays home with baby. | DE: |
| Domestic Dad | Todays-Woman.net | Melvin Durai | | Melvin Durai's Humor Column | |
| A Day in the Life of a Stay-at-Home Dad | ParentToParent.com | Jodie Lynn | | Written by a columnist who usually focuses on stay-at-home moms. | |
| What Is Dad's Job Worth? | salary.com | | | Working Dad vs. Stay at Home Dad Salaries For 2006 | |