Jeremy Adam Smith

“Jeremy Adam Smith writes so well and so honestly about the love of staying home with his son, about the economics of his family life, and about the politics of our nation at large. Whoever doesn't already think the public and the domestic are linked needs to spend some time on his blog, Daddy Dialectic, or read one of his essays. Thanks, Jeremy, for all the writing you do.”

“Jeremy Adam Smith says what I wish I could about the politics of fatherhood and what it means to be a dad dedicated to equity, change, and social justice for our children and for all children.”

Jeremy Adam Smith is the author of Twenty-First-Century Dad, forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2009, and co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct, forthcoming from W.W. Norton & Co. in 2009.

He is senior editor of Greater Good magazine, published by the U.C. Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, a quarterly that collects, synthesizes, and interprets groundbreaking scientific research into the roots of compassion, altruism, and peaceful human relationships.

Jeremy is also the founder of Daddy Dialectic, a group blog that explores the experiences of twenty-first-century dads, which has earned praise from the Washington Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and many corners of the blogosphere.

His essays, short stories, and articles on parenting, popular culture, urban life, and politics have appeared in AlterNet, The Nation, Mothering, Mothers Movement Online, Our Stories, Public Eye, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Utne Reader, Wired, and numerous other periodicals and books, most recently the anthology Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power. Jeremy has also been interviewed by many media outlets, including The New York Times, USA Today, "Nightline," “The Agenda with Steve Paikin,” KPFA, Newhouse News Service, Toronto Star, SF Weekly, and Chicago Reader.

His book, Twenty-First-Century Dad, will tell the stories of fathers who have embraced caregiving and egalitarian marriages, explore the hopes and ideals that inform their choices, and analyze the economic and social developments that have made their choices possible. Stay-at-home dads represent a logical culmination of fifty years of family change, from a time when the idea of men caring for children was literally inconceivable, to a new era when at-home dads are a small but growing part of the landscape. Their numbers and cultural importance will continue to rise—and Smith argues that they must rise, as the global, creative, technological economy makes flexible gender roles more and more possible and desirable.