The New York Times Continues To Discover At-Home Dads
Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Brian Reid in General
The New York Times wrote a rather breathless account earlier in the month about what used to be called “Mommy and Baby” classes at the Prospect Park YMCA, in Brooklyn. It’s the latest in a series of well-reported pieces in the Times that all fall under the general heading of “Holy crap! Look at all of these economic-recession-dads suddenly showing up at events for kids.”
What is extraordinary is that the story makes it sound like “critical mass” was achieved in just the last 6 or 7 months, with dads being absent before then. While this sounds suspect to me — it’s not like childreading-dads suddenly descended on New York, like dormant cicadas, when Lehman Brothers folded.
But, hey, maybe we have reached that magical point in NYC where formerly closeted at-home dads are now showing themselves in public. Either way, it’s all good …