fatherhood

Your happy, united family suddenly shifts to you versus your tired and hungry preschooler, frustrated elementary kid who isn’t getting what she wants, or worse — a snarling, seething, moody, hate-mongering…TEENAGER!

There's this stereotype of the only child: that they're spoiled and self-centered. That their parents are the worst kind of doting, helicopter kid-worshippers. That they're inherently lonely.

Nothing can really prepare you for being a parent. And there is no damn way anything can prepare you for being a step-parent.

For starters, fathers want culture and media to take us seriously as parents. After all, it is 2015. We should be way past the bumbling Mr. Mom stereotype. Fathers are just as capable of diapering, feeding and raising children as women, and are doing this work more than ever before.

It is obvious once you begin to look that the male default can be found everywhere.

We can't talk about men without talking about boys.

We can't talk about men without talking about boys.

I was not always a feminist. But then I became the father of two.