The daddy shift : how stay-at-home dads, breadwinning moms, and shared parenting are transforming the American family / Jeremy Adam Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, Description: xxiii, 232 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807021200
  • 0807021202
  • 9780807021217
  • 0807021210
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/6150973 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ756.6 .S65 2009
Contents:
A stay-at-home dad's history of North America -- Searching for role models : Ed and Rachelle's story -- Stay-at-home economics or, five myths of caregiving fatherhood -- Searching for community : Chien's story -- Interlude : now you see it, now you don't -- Returning to glory : Ta-Nehisi's story -- The astonishing science of fatherhood, or, three more myths about male caregiving -- Searching for heroism : Kent and Misun's story -- Conclusion: Remember the future -- Another fatherhood is possible.
Summary: An analysis of a growing trend in stay-at-home fathers explores the qualities of families with income-earning moms and fathers who take less-traditional and more involved roles in raising their children.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-226) and index.

A stay-at-home dad's history of North America -- Searching for role models : Ed and Rachelle's story -- Stay-at-home economics or, five myths of caregiving fatherhood -- Searching for community : Chien's story -- Interlude : now you see it, now you don't -- Returning to glory : Ta-Nehisi's story -- The astonishing science of fatherhood, or, three more myths about male caregiving -- Searching for heroism : Kent and Misun's story -- Conclusion: Remember the future -- Another fatherhood is possible.

An analysis of a growing trend in stay-at-home fathers explores the qualities of families with income-earning moms and fathers who take less-traditional and more involved roles in raising their children.

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