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 [...]
Recently, someone wrote this to me:
“All I know for sure is that [my partner] depends on me in certain key ways (as I depend on her in others) and that this strength she relies on in me represents my manliness and a crucial part of my identity. Those who dispute the existence of this dependence [...]
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 [...]