Jeremy Adam Smith

I received a truly humbling group of blurbs from scholars I truly respect:

"Students will love the The Daddy Shift because it offers compelling personal stories and focuses on issues that are important to young people. Instructors will adopt it because it introduces the reader to multiple fields of scholarship and asks provocative questions. The Daddy Shift is appropriate for classes focusing on topics related to family, marriage, parenting, gender, social change, work-life issues, social psychology and public policy." -- Scott Coltrane, Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon, author of Family Man and Gender and Families (more…)

Australia: Trading Places, The Age

Brazil: Quando é o pai que fica em casa, Crescer

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

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 (more…)

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

Growing shift in parental gender roles, ABC News 7

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

Defining the Daddy Track, San Francisco Chronicle

Daddy on Board, Salon.com

I've done a dozen radio shows over the past week. Here's a sampling:

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

The Daddy Shift, The Current (CBC)
(more…)

In today's USA Today: New daditude: Today's fathers are hands-on, pressure off. Nice quotes from me and an all-star lineup of fatherhood researchers and activists, including DadLabs.

And speaking of DadLabs, here's my newest collaboration with those crazy guys.

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

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

The Daddy Shift got a wonderful review by Mike Adamick in the San Francisco Chronicle parenting blog:

Amazing... Smith's book lays out a richly detailed--and almost thumb-burning--narrative on the way a new generation of parents are raising their children under this shifting economic and familial landscape. (more…)