Idolising Children?

I sat in a class about 10 years ago with a journalist named Steven Dow. He has always written brilliantly. I didn’t expect him to be writing a piece like this. Hats off - he captures the whole thing perfectly.

Thanks Steve.

“School’s in for dads”, The Age, 13 February 2008

Over at the Fairfax Whose your daddy? blog, Sacha Molitorisz has blogged a bit about parenting books. He has his own coming out in August - a dad focussed one to help fill a bit of that void.

He gives Idolising Children a run…and proceeds to include a few paragraphs from an email discussion about the book.

Very generous of him. Thanks Sacha. Enjoy the trip to Germany.

The debates around the Family Court are fuelled with emotion and passion - as they should be. But, here is a good news story.

Is this a reflection of the changing role of fathers? Are the shared custody arrangements catching up with where men are at, or are they taking the lead?

Data from HREOC indicates while women have increased their share of paid work, men have not increased their amount of domestic housework.

What ever the case - this is a good news story