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What I Wish I Said to My Kids More Often When They Were Young

By Matt Christensen

Health & Science

New Dads Are Facing a Public Health Crisis

What I Would Tell My Younger Self About Being a Dad

By Matt Christensen

My Proudest Moment As a Dad (So Far), According to 14 Men

By Matt Christensen

This Was the Biggest Misconception I Had About Fatherhood

By Matt Christensen

What I Wish I Knew My First Year of Being a Parent, According to 11 Dads

By Jeremy Brown

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Don't Let Anyone Tell You That Fatherhood Isn't Costly. But what a purchase it is.

8 Ways to Demonstrate Vulnerability to Your Kids Without Feeling Weird About It It’s normal to feel a little weird when you break social norms and stereotypes about your own vulnerability. But this shouldn't stop you.

How Mass Incarceration Has Led to Absentee Fathers and Troubled Children Most fathers — especially those who have served their terms — deserve to have their children in their lives, if at all possible.

The Trouble With Maternal Instinct Consciously or subconsciously, parents buy into the idea that women are natural caregivers. It's not true and it hurts everyone.

Timbaland Still Has It The guy behind every song you like on the one song that you absolutely hate.

Dax Shepard Isn't Doing a Bit He's an actor, podcaster, husbander (famously, to Kristen Bell), and a father. And the likable thing isn't an act.

Not Sure If You Want Kids? This Therapist Will Help You Decide For 30 years, family therapist Ann Davidman has helped men and women figure out if they really, truly want to be parents.

Will My Son Make the Same Mistakes I Did? Fatherhood makes you anxious. Here, a group of dads shares their biggest anxieties about being parents.

The Encouraging Science of the 'Father Effect' There are data-driven reasons why kids do better with a father figure in their lives.

Health & Science

Dads Hate Participation Trophies, Get Them Constantly Dads receive praise all the time for doing their job as a parent. Accept it. But for the sake of equality, it needs to stop.

7 Assumptions About Stay At Home Dads That Need to Stop There are more stay at home dads right now than ever before. But a lot of old-school assumptions live on.

Father & Child Relationships

The Unlikely Warrior Fighting for Men's Room Changing Tables Donte Palmer wants to change the way the world sees fatherhood, and he's starting with changing tables.

I Stopped Drinking And Realized I Don’t Need Beer to Help Me Parent Dads and alcohol go hand in hand. But I gave up drinking and found I’m stronger than I thought.

Fatherhood Kills Friendships. Here's How I Saved Mine. After becoming a dad, there are no day-long hangs or all-hours bonding sessions. But you can still make friendships work. Here's how I did.

7 Ways Long-Distance Parents Can Maintain a Connection with their Kids "The important thing is to give the child something to look forward to that is unfailing."

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