USA Today on SAHDs
Posted on 22. Aug, 2007 by rebel in General
When it rains, it pours. USA Today ran a piece on the presentation at the American Psychological Association meeting of Aarin Rochlen’s dad survey results, though I can’t say that there’s a ton of depth here. I have a million non-dads things on the plate, so I pass along without comment:
Nice work if you can get it. That’s the consensus of fairly affluent, well-educated fathers who stay home full time with their children, according to a pioneering study released over the weekend.
About 159,000 men in the USA are full-time fathers, more than triple the number a decade ago, Census data show. “Just don’t call them ‘Mr. Mom.’ They really don’t like it,” says Aaron Rochlen of the University of Texas-Austin. He spoke at a panel on cutting-edge research about fathers at the American Psychological Association meeting.
gary
22. Aug, 2007
If you’re interested in reading more about Rochlen’s results, or in seeing a more in-depth report on the lives of some real at-home dads in the national media, you should check out my cover story from Working Mother’s June issue, called “The New Dad.” If I’m not mistaken, this article was the first media report on Rochlen’s (then preliminary) study results. (And, yes, there’s an obligatory, but brief, reference to “Mr. Mom,” but let’s all try to look past that . . .):
http://www.workingmother.com/web?service=direct/1/ViewAdvancedPortalPage/PortalBlocks/dlinkArticle&sp=S395&sp=120
- Gary (FreelanceDad.com)
cryitout
23. Aug, 2007
I remember reading the prelim results a while back, and the whole Mr. Mom thing didn’t seem to matter to most of the guys. Personally I like Mrs. Dad.
Mike