Jeremy Adam Smith

Recent Media

Dad-Mom Role Reversals: Families struggle to cope with the financial, emotional and who-does-the-dishes restructuring of their lives in this recession. Working Mother

Parents Dish on Reviving Romance, Moms Get Real, ABC News

Free to be Fathers?, Commonweal

The Secret Lives of Men, Blogtalkradio

The Joy of a Really Crummy Zoo, Slate

Trading Places, The Age (Australia)

Quando é o pai que fica em casa, Crescer (Brazil)

Dude, put down the breast pump, Globe and Mail (Canada)

Parenting and Mad Moms, The Takeaway (WNYC/​WBUR/​NPR)

Stay-at-home dad isn't alone as recession hits men hard, The Dallas Morning News

Former Wall Streeters take on new parenting roles, Reuters

Dads in the Digital Age, The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC)

Stay-at-Home Fatherhood On the Rise from TommyG Productions on Vimeo.



Stay at Home Fatherhood on the Rise, NBC News (Bay Area)

Day Share Dads, City Journal

Are Kids Naturally Racist?, The Takeaway (WNYC/​WBUR/​NPR)

Rise of the Stay-at-Home Dads, US News and World Report

Growing shift in parental gender roles, ABC News 7

Defining the Daddy Track, San Francisco Chronicle

Daddy on Board, Salon.com

The Changing Role of Fathers and the Family, The Takeaway (BBC World Service /​ New York Times)

Read this before your first Father's Day, True/​Slant

Changing roles mean fatherhood isn't what it used to be, Wilmington Star

The Daddy Shift, The Current (CBC)

Stay at Home Dads, Here and Now with Robin Young (NPR)

The Daddy Shift, Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn (WILL)

New daditude: Today's fathers are hands-on, pressure off, USA Today

Princess Parenting, DadLabs.com

Daddy's lost his job--now he's got a blog, Globe and Mail

No Child Left Behind = All Boys Left Behind, Huffington Post

Exploring changing families in The Daddy Shift, San Francisco Chronicle parenting blog

The Daddy Identity Crisis, New York Times

Help! More Daddy Bloggers, Double X

Hands-on dads handle stress better, Toronto Star

A Podcast with Jeremy Adam Smith about The Daddy Shift, PsychJourney

On April 23, Jeremy joined feminist Shira Tarrant, filmmaker Byron Hurt, and author Jacob Anderson-Minshall in talking about men, masculinity, violence, and positive change on Nathalie Thandiwe's WBAI radio show, "Women: Body & Soul." You can listen to it here.

Jeremy collaborated with DadLabs to produce this segment on paternity leave:


The day before Election Day 2008, Jeremy was interviewed on the Forum by Michael Krasny about trust and politics. You can listen to it here:


What moms can learn from dads, USA Today

First-time dads have a few more gray hairs, San Francisco Chronicle.

When moms criticize, dads back off of baby care, MSNBC.

Life and the Single Dad, San Francisco Chronicle.

Jeremy was interviewed, along with Good Divorce author Constance Ahrons, on the KPFA show "Sunday with Peter Laufer" about new research into what makes today's families work. You can listen to the interview here.

Jeremy hosted a panel discussion in late 2007 on "The 21st Century Family" with family historian Stephanie Coontz, UC Berkeley psychologists Philip and Carolyn Cowan, and internationally known author and therapist Joshua Coleman. You can watch the panel here

Selected Works

Nonfiction
The Daddy Shift
How Stay-at-Home Fathers, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting are Transforming the American Family
Anthologies
The Compassionate Instinct
Essays on the Science of Human Goodness
Are We Born Racist?
New Insights from Neuroscience and Positive Psychology
Essays & Stories
Recent Publications
"Entertaining and thought-provoking.” – Lit Haven
Blog
Daddy Dialectic
“A really neat site” – Our Bodies, Our Blog “Thoughtful” – Washington Post