Fatherhood on Shine

Tricked into Fatherhood: That Was No "Accident"

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You two were careful, but somehow she got pregnant. It happens. Or not... Getting tricked into fatherhood by a woman hell-bent on getting pregnant is much more common than you think.

By Ian Daly for DETAILS

Imagine for a moment this perfectly plausible scenario: You've had a steady girlfriend for a year or so and everything's going great. You still hold hands at the movies. Friends tell you you're good together. You're both around 30 years old and making plenty of money, maybe living together, but you're nowhere near considering fatherhood. And though you occasionally get the feeling that her biological clock is set far ahead of yours, she tells you she's "safe," so you don't worry. Why would you? It's not as if you'd just picked her up on Dollar Margarita Night at Senor Frog's. But one morning she tells you something has gone wrong. Unlikely as it sounds, she's pregnant-and she wants to keep it. What she doesn't tell you, though, is this: She wasn't being safe all along.

A Father's Legacy

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How many times have we as men, begun to create what we feel would be our lasting legacies; only to find that what we thought was our legacy was really only a selfish reaction to the world around us? So many of us today (myself included) view our surroundings through what I like to call, “envious contact lenses”. I used to find myself wandering why did someone who was obviously doing wrong have more than I did. Why did this person have the luxury car, and here I am on the bus? How could that person walk into Macy’s and buy whatever they pleased, while I struggled to buy an item from Walgreens?

Don't We Working Moms Have it All?

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I'm lying on the bed…

Are Male Stereotypes Ruining Our Husbands and Fathers?

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The Stereotypes to Men Are Just As Damaging Ladies, we get hopping-mad when people try to stereotype us, especially to some June Cleaver/Stepford Wife look-alike. …

Father Envy.

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by Leslie Morgan Steiner (Mommy Track'd - Two Cents on Working Motherhood)

Father’s Day afternoon. My family and I were heading home after a weekend away. Our plane was packed. We were last…

Daddy Bloggers

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Happy Father's Day to some of the best of the best dad bloggers!

-Stephanie Elliot, BettyConfidential.com Dads. They're really great, aren't they? And…

Interview with Celtics guard Eddie House

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Jeanne Sager He may wear an NBA championship ring around his finger, but Boston Celtics guard Eddie House is about to be outdone. . . by his eight-year-old son. Jaelen House is already known for his constant presence on the court during Celtics' home games, and The Cartoon Network is now…

Michael Lewis & Tabitha Soren: Should dads have to change diapers? Michael Lewis says "no."

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When Michael Lewis's new parenting memoir, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, arrived in the office, we snatched it up. The author of the glorious baseball book

Does dad's age affect a child's IQ?

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A few months ago a study was published that indicated kids born to older dads face a higher chance of developing bipolar disorder. Apparently children with…

Juice Box Jungle: Is it your "job" to handle the homefront?

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If so, you deserve a raise. I've heard so many people say lately that their "job" is staying home with the kids and so they, therefore, should have dinner on the table by 6 and have the house clean and pay the bills (and etc., etc.), that my head is spinning. I do get it. If you stay…