This is a topic I've been thinking about a lot lately. One of the main ideas behind our practice is that parenting has become more difficult in general and we try to outline some of the cultural reasons for this.
However, what about being a dad specifically? Has that become harder?
I was doing some research for a talk I'll be doing at a conference in October when I came across this article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It's called, "Dads Have a Harder Time Than Their Dads" and points to a Pew Research study that found that:
60 percent of respondents said it's tougher being Dad today than in the 1970s and 1980s, with only 12 percent saying it's an easier gig.
I personally think dad's have a harder time these days figuring out their role in the family. I definitely don't subscribe to any stereotypes that say women should not work, etc, but the fact that so many families are dual-income these days, how has that changed things?
What do you think?
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