Archive for 'at-home dads'
Overworked Husbands=At-Home Moms (But Not Vice Versa)
Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Yesterday, I posted on Katherine Lewis’ great WaPo Magazine story on the struggles of a woman to get back into the workforce. But there is an even bigger question that undergirds that whole article: what drives people out of the workforce in the first place? This is the great unmentionable in “opt-out revolution” stories in [...]
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Time for the Annual AHD Stat Attack
Posted on29. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
It always sneaks up on me, but the folks at the Census Bureau have again dropped their annual at-home dad statistics numbers for me to chew over. (This is a bit of an overstatement: the Census actually puts out a whole bunch of stuff under the title “Familes and Living Arrangements”. If you want the [...]
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The Latest from Working Mother on Hopeless Fathers
Posted on17. Feb, 2010 by Brian Reid.
A few months back, I dutifully flagged a request from a Working Mother reporter who was putting together a piece on how families were coping with role reversals in cases where the economy flipped breadwinner roles. This is a danger-zone topic for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it lends [...]