It is unclear whether stay at home daddy-dom is as unusual and newsworthy as it was back in the mid-80s when Michael Keaton made housewives everywhere swoon with his "Mr. Mom" routine (He cooked! He cleaned! He watched soap operas!) but Newsweek's Brian Braiker seems to think so.
The generational differences between our dads and the men doing the daddying these days can easily be summed up by the tasks that are undertaken now with great regularity by daddies everywhere (diaper-changing, school schlepping, bathing)... This group of dads is definitely hands-on.
Thankfully, Mr Braiker states outright that he's "...not asking for a medal" for his childrearing efforts -- a wise move should he ever desire to get laid again in this lifetime. His observations about generational differences and sex roles are keen and relatively accurate, if somewhat limited by his (assuming here) upper income bracket.
While it's true that men these day spend more time with their children than prior generations, it is also true that many many women (one of whom wrote an article for Newsweek) still feel (and studies validate) that they are doing the majority of household work, regardless of how much bacon they are or are not still bringing home. And until that inequity is solved, I'm afraid very few men will be getting medals after all.
