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For the Record … (In Re: Caitlin Flanagan)
Posted on17. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Once upon a time, I took up a good amount of this blog with posts about Caitlin Flanagan, a talented writer with a disturbing and dangerous lack of perspective on how families worked in the real world. She penned provocative pieces, got a gig at the New Yorker and published a book of her perspective-lacking [...]
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Two Great Things from Canada
Posted on15. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
Among the many wonderful things I missed during my hiatus was a thoughtful audio documentary that ran on CBC’s “The Current” program in December. The piece (it’s segment threein this link) is notable for three reasons. It is a a nice, well-rounded look at at-home dads. It was written, reported and produced by Cameron Phillips, [...]
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Al Jazeera (Really) on At-Home Dads
Posted on10. Mar, 2010 by Brian Reid.
When the NYC At-Home Dads group pinged me a week or two ago about a request they’d received to help with a spot for the English-language branch of Al Jazeera, I was a bit flummoxed. I knew that Al Jazeera had been working to build a network that busted some of the stereotypes, but I [...]