Compare and Contrast: NYC Dads and Brazil
Posted on 27. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid in Uncategorized
Last year, a reporter with Brazil’s TPM (think People, only in Portuguese) spent some time hanging with the NYC at-home dad group. I spend a lot of time here bellyaching about the fact that the United States ranks pretty poorly when it comes to laws that support families. But that doesn’t mean that this is a lousy place to be a dad.
The whole reason that TPM wanted to hang with Lance and the rest of the New York guys is that the SAHD culture in New York (and almost everywhere else in the country at this point) doesn’t exist in Brazil, which sounds like something of a nanny state: uniformed nannies are de rigeur at a certain spot in Brazilian culture.
The piece — a translated version is up on the NYC Dads Group’s website — doesn’t necessarily break new ground about the life of the American at-home dad, but it does have interesting details on how Brazil measures up (or doesn’t measure up). Plus, it quotes Jeremy Adam Smith.
Interesting reading …