Do Fewer Fathers Want to Become Stay-at-Home Dads?
CareerBuilder announces : The number of guys who’d consider becoming stay-at-home dads has dropped from 49 percent in 2005 to 31 percent this year. This is based on a survey of 800 working fathers. How can we reconcile that number with the staggering number of Father’s Day stories about laid-off fathers becoming stay-at-home dads, or the rising visibility of caregiving fathers in our culture? That’s easy: We are now in the midst of an all-hands-on-deck economic emergency. Even employed parents feel under the gun at work, and many are facing furloughs, salary cuts, and benefits reductions. In that kind of situation, every able-bodied adult in every family needs to think about how he or she might contribute to the family’s income, not to mention health care coverage. That includes my family, by the way: I’m being laid off as senior editor of Greater Good magazine and my wife’s employment situation has been rocky for awhile now. Am I going to go back to being a stay-at-home dad? I loved t
