Just received this comment from a reader:
“I’m a doctoral student, and thinking about writing about fathers of young children (0-5) especially those getting more involved with their care. I’m wondering whether men these days include their caregiving of children as a major part of their identities or not. I’d love your thoughts on this.
Is religion [...]
Thanks for sharing your story Step.
My daughter is now 8 years old, and I’ve brought her up half time since parting ways with her mother about 5 years ago. 50/50 care was a given for me even though it was hard. At least I have always worked part time so it was not too hard [...]
I have my 2-year-old son by myself every Wednesday (today) for our ‘Daddy Day’. It’s a great thing to do. Without it, I don’t think I’d know him half as well and it’s (mostly) a heap of fun. We roam around town and the countryside causing mischief and mayhem, often with our two dogs in [...]
“My daddy, he was just a stranger.
Lived in a hotel downtown.
When I was a kid, he was just somebody.
Somebody I’d see around.”
Bruce Springsteen, Long Time Coming, 2005.
My son is about to turn 18 months old. That’s a year and a half. It’s taken me about this long to start to get [...]