Are You a Househusband?
July 31, 2009 by Eliza Ferree
Filed under Parenting
I normally don’t even think about this topic, for me the household is all done by me, the mom. The husband goes to work and comes home and sleeps, okay that isn’t all he does but you get the drift. I’m the one home all day with the house and taking care of the kids. While
I know there are men that stay home and do this, it doesn’t always click in my mind until I hear of one. Don’t get me wrong though because I know many that do: John Chow, Garry Conn, Darren Rowse, etc. But for some reason …read more
Man of the House
“Stay-at-home dad: It sounds like an idea for a sitcom. In fact, it was — last season’s Daddio on NBC. And, of course, it was the basis for Michael Keaton’s 1983 comedy, Mr. Mom. Yet there’s a sizable group of men — and their wives — who take the concept very seriously.
Although there are no exact statistics on the number of fathers who elect to stay home to take care of their kids, James Levine, director of the Fatherhood Project at the Families and Work Institute in New York City, puts the figure at around 300,000 — and growing, he …read more




