The Daddy Shift: How Stay At-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms and Shared Parenting are Transforming the American Family

A revealing look at stay at home fatherhood - for men, their families, and for American society.

Category	Gender Diversity
Details	A revealing look at stay-at-home fatherhood—for men, their families, and for American society. It’s a growing phenomenon among American families: fathers who cut back on paid work to focus on raising children. But what happens when dads stay home? What do stay-at-home fathers struggle with—and what do they rejoice in? How does taking up the mother’s traditional role affect a father’s relationship with his partner, children, and extended family? And what does stay-at-home fatherhood mean for the larger society? In chapters that alternate between large-scale analysis and intimate portraits of men and their families, journalist Jeremy Adam Smith traces the complications, myths, psychology, sociology, and history of a new set of social relationships with far-reaching implications. As the American economy faces its greatest crisis since the Great Depression, Smith reveals that many mothers today have the ability to support families and fathers are no longer narrowly defined by their ability to make money—they have the capacity to be caregivers as well.
Author	Jeremy Adam Smith
Publication Date	June 1, 2009
Source	Beacon Press
Format	Hardcover (256 Pages, 6 x 9 x 1 in)
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Cost	Purchase online for under CAD$30.00
Recommended For	For parents of both genders and everyone interested in how the decision for fathers to stay at home affects families, business and society.