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What I Wish I Knew My First Year of Being a Parent, According to 12 Dads

By Jeremy Brown

Fatherly Voices

Don't Let Anyone Tell You That Fatherhood Isn't Costly.

8 Ways to Demonstrate Vulnerability to Your Kids Without Feeling Weird About It

By Ashley Abramson

How Mass Incarceration Has Led to Absentee Fathers and Troubled Children

By Andrew Yarrow

Fatherly Voices

I Didn’t Really Feel Like a Dad Until This Happened

The Trouble With Maternal Instinct

By Virginia Pelley

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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.

Who Reassures Dad? Social progress has been largely good for American families, but the destruction of support systems for men has left fathers increasingly stranded and alone.

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 Science of the 'Father Effect' There are data-driven reasons why kids do better with father figures 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

What Jay-Z Means to a Generation of Rap Dads The track, in which Jay reflects on the birth of his daughter Blue Ivy, charts his evolution into fatherhood.

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.

This Is the Only Workout That Calms My Mind I am forced to be in the moment when I box.

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.

Died on the Fourth of July My dad was in and out of my life. I learned not to rely on him. Then he was gone forever.

Father & Child Relationships

My Depression and My Kids My kids didn't know about my first suicide attempt. They were too young.

When My Kid Got in the Way of My Dream, I Gave Up My Dreams All parents have to make some sacrifices for their kids. Mine was my ambition to make it big as a stand-up comedian.

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