If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!An update to the story we reported in April: pregnant man, Thomas Beatie, gave birth to a baby girl on June 29.
Beatie was born female but has lived as a man since his 20s with the help of male [...]
When a man learns his partner is pregnant, it’s usually a joyous time. As well as happiness and excitement, it’s natural for men to feel uncertainty, fear of change, nervousness about whether he’ll be a good father, and worry about how he’ll provide for his family. But for most men, it’s a an overwhelmingly happy [...]
“I’m halfway to having enough paper to finish this project,” my husband stated cryptically. He’s an origami enthusiast, and we had just left Michael’s Crafts, so I had a vague idea of what he had in mind; I imagined it involved tiny paper mice, planes or bugs.
“Paper for what?” I asked.
He smirked. “To build cranes.”
“And [...]
Father’s Day is this Sunday, June 15. (Who am I kidding? It’s men who forget days like this, right? All mothers already know that it’s Sunday, and probably already have a handmade card and craft all prepared.) Therefore, like most mass-marketed so-called “greeting card” holidays, we are, as consumers, literally inundated [...]
I’m a dad who works outside the home, with a wife who is a stay at home mom. Subsequently, by the simple laws of physics (combined with the fact that the nature of my job does not allow me to work the night shift while my family sleeps), I am the secondary caregiver to [...]
This book offended the most library users in 2007 - and the year before too. Was it a political book? An explicit novel? An ultra-violent thriller?
Nope - it’s about penguins. And Tango Makes Three is a children’s picture book based on the true story of two male penguins, Roy and Silo, who lived as a [...]
Postnatal depression in moms is at last being recognized, and today more moms feel able to seek help and treatment without being stigmatized.
Society doesn’t treat dads as well. Men often get depressed after the birth of a baby, and studies suggest around 3-4% of fathers suffer from depression. Another study published this week suggests that [...]
On Wednesday night, a Maplewood, MN father took his 18-month-old son, and told his wife he was going out to buy milk.
Somewhere on the way, he seems to have changed his mind, because he never brought any milk. Instead, he drove over the state line to Wisconsin and to the Cajun Club Strip Club. He [...]
