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November 25, 2020

Nov 25, 2020
FAMILYPALOOZA THANKSGIVING SPECIAL! | A Very Full House | Movies with Dad | After the Curtain | The Death of Reiko Kawasaki | She Swallowed a Coin | 'I'm a Real Boy'
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Enough Already: How The Pandemic Is Breaking Women
Nathan Bieck with his wife Ashley and 9-year-old daughter Maddie. Since being furloughed in the pandemic, Bieck has become Teacher Dad, helping Maddie with virtual school while job searching himself.

For Dads In The Pandemic: Lows, Highs And Constant Uncertainty

Nov 11, 2020
While working moms have been struggling this year, pandemic life is also taking a toll on dads, many of whom are confronting situations they may not have chosen otherwise.
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Shots - Health News
Joe Bay (center), coach of a New York City "Bootcamp for New Dads," instructs Adewale Oshodi (left) and George Pasco in how to cradle an infant for best soothing.

How A Prenatal 'Bootcamp' For New Dads Helps The Whole Family

Sep 08, 2019
Prenatal classes often focus on Mom-to-be — on her shifting role and emotional needs, along with new skills. But if Dad gets sidelined early into a supporting role, research shows, everybody loses.
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The Picture Show
Isma is a musician from Equatorial Guinea and moved with his wife to Washington, D.C., where they had a son named Matteo. It wasn't easy for Isma to move to a new country, learn a new language and be a new dad all at the same time.

Tracing The Expanding Definition Of Fatherhood

Jun 14, 2019
After his son's birth, Dirk Anschütz photographed fathers and sons for six years. "There's a lot of change going on right now regarding what fatherhood means, what masculinity means," he says.
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Stay-At-Home Dads Still Struggle With Diapers, Drool, Stigma And Isolation

Jun 17, 2018
It's hard to find other stay-at-home dads to hang out with, and working men worry you'll hit on their stay-at-home wives. Meanwhile, bosses still expect new fathers to work full-time. What's changed?
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Goats and Soda
Jean Marie Rukundo and his wife, Theodosie Uwambajimana, with their 2-year-old daughter. They've nicknamed her "Rwamerc," the acronym for a resource center in Rwanda that taught Rukundo how to step up his game as a spouse and father. When he came with hi

Men Teaching Men To Be Better Husbands And Dads

Jun 15, 2018
An experimental program in Rwanda tried to teach men to do more chores, listen to their wife instead of bossing her around and get involved in raising the kids. Did it work?
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Shots - Health News
College-educated new dads are more likely to be older, with an average age of 33.

Fatherhood After 40? It's Becoming A Lot More Common

Aug 31, 2017
The average age for fathers of newborns in the U.S. has risen from 27.4 years back in 1972 to 30.9 years now. And if the baby's dad has a college degree, he's likely to be even older.
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Moms Need Social Support, And Not Just In The Baby Years

Jul 15, 2017
Social support networks can help mothers of teenagers navigate through difficulties and maintain closeness with their children, researchers have found.
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Poverty, Dropouts, Pregnancy, Suicide: What The Numbers Say About Fatherless Kids

Jun 18, 2017
Data clearly show how many fatherless children there are and how their lives are affected, but one best-selling author says he rarely sees interventions happening in schools.
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Shots - Health News
Giving dads a task — in this case, reading — seemed to suit them better than the kind of parenting classes favored by moms.

How To Get Dads To A Parenting Class? Ask Them To Read To Their Kid

Jan 23, 2017
In a world of mom-focused parenting classes, this class got low-income Latino dads engaged by focusing on a tangible skill: reading to their preschoolers. It ended up helping dads and kids alike.
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How Fatherhood Changes Men

Sep 21, 2011
A recent study revealed that fatherhood leads to a drop in manliness. No, seriously: The study compared when men were single to when they became fathers, and found parenting actually lowered a man's testosterone levels.
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