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Posted on 02. May, 2004 by Brian Reid in General

It’s time to clean out the closet and get linking to the at-home dad stories I’ve been ignoring for the last week or so. There has been a small resurgence in the newspaper slice-of-life pieces on at-home dads which is especially welcome, given that we should be in a pre-Father’s Day lull. Michael over at Daddy Designs pointed out this piece from the Tampa Tribune on the lives of the local at-home dad group. Michael liked the piece’s focus on the dads involved, without trying to link the fathers to any larger dad stereotypes. And I have to say I agree.

There’s a similar story in the Charlotte Observer (reg. required) that takes notice of the way that men in these roles destroy stereotypes. All in all, it’s one of the best of these kinds of pieces I’ve seen in a while. We should be so lucky as to get a barrage of these in a month, as Dad’s Day approaches.

And there are the goofy stories: an-home dad and his wife won a house in an Australian reality TV show. And in the US market, Showtime’s presidential election reality show, American Candidate, features an at-home dad as one of the would-be commanders-in-chief.

(As an aside, I have now purchased The Bastard on the Couch. I’ll be reviewing it here, piecemeal. If you’d like to read a professional review, check out Slate’s take on the book, which is far more interesting than the headline makes it out to be.)