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Lady Business: Are the Mancession, He-Covery, and Stay-At-Home Dads Good for...
The shadow argument for the old "Having it All" conversation, which should probably be retired along with cutesy words like Mancession and He-Covery, is the idea that men who are not breadwinners are...
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Daddy Issues: A Surfeit Of SAHDs And Single Dads
As you might have noticed, there have been a lot of primary-caregiver dads in pop culture lately. In addition to populating long-running shows like Two and a Half Men, Castle, and Dexter, we’ve seen...
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Daddy Issues: What Happens When Stay-at-Home-Dads Have Had Enough?
There are lots of different dads on Parenthood: single dads, married dads, almost-stepdads, mostly absent dads, and of course, stay-at-home dad Joel Graham (Sam Jaeger). Married to high-powered...
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Daddy Issues: The Mixed Blessings of "Dadvertising"
Obviously it’s not always possible to tell when the dad in an ad is a primary caregiver, but there’s been an increase in dad-centric TV commercials this year, with a move away from the doofus archetype...
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Daddy Issues: Keeping it (Upper Middle) Classy
With its over the top premise and mining of dementia for “comedy”, I could never get into Raising Hope, but there's one thing I do appreciate about the sitcom: it’s one of very few successful shows to...
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Daddy Issues: But What About The Moms?
While I ended my last post by snarkily suggesting that pop culture’s fascination with fathers might give way to an interest in motherhood, the truth is a lot of messages about moms are already encoded...
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Daddy Issues: What's It All About?
Over the last two months, I’ve written more than 20,000 words (!) about male primary caregivers in popular culture. I hope I’ve illustrated that while the rise in non-stereotypical portrayals of men is...
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