Read more fatherhood stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/484/fatherhood.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 11:11:33 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74149/daughters-are-great-but.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAaron Traister is thrilled to have a daughter—“I was just as excited about my daughter as I was about my son,” he writes. “And she's even better out of the belly.” But the nagging preference for male children in our society has him doubting his own emotions. “If she...http://www.newser.com/story/74149/daughters-are-great-but.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Nov 2009 13:57:46 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72285/obama-owns-up-michelle-made-more-sacrifices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe men in many families need to be "knocked across the head every once in a while" to realize how much more work their partners are putting into child-raising, President Obama says, and the Obamas are no exception. "There's no doubt that our family, like a lot of families out...http://www.newser.com/story/72285/obama-owns-up-michelle-made-more-sacrifices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 22 Oct 2009 7:23:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71162/guys-take-a-page-from-chabons-manhood-for-amateurs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Chabon throws his voice into the widening pool of “daddy diaries” with Manhood for Amateurs , which offers “poignant meditations on manhood, fatherhood, and aspects of his own childhood.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning author emerges from the essays “as a prince among men,” writes Heller McAlpin for NPR. “Not only does...http://www.newser.com/story/71162/guys-take-a-page-from-chabons-manhood-for-amateurs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 07 Oct 2009 13:51:44 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67635/help-im-jealous-of-my-own-kid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYou’re trying to give your kids the best: karate lessons, top schools, the latest video games. “You couldn't be prouder, really,” writes Christopher Noxon in Details , until “it hits you: you’re jealous.” Your childhood was never this good, and now, as your kid expands his horizons, you’re sitting on the...http://www.newser.com/story/67635/help-im-jealous-of-my-own-kid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 12:36:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66664/brady-life-and-football-dont-stop-for-anyone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTom Brady has a busy life even if you don’t include answering questions about his ex-girlfriend, kid, wife, and his return to football after a devastating injury. But a perfectly literal statement about his sport sums up his approach to everything else. “The game goes on,” he tells Details . “They...http://www.newser.com/story/66664/brady-life-and-football-dont-stop-for-anyone.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 11 Aug 2009 17:16:09 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62277/obama-absent-dad-taught-me-value-of-fatherhood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama came to realize the value of fatherhood through its absence in his own life as a boy, he writes in an essay published in Parade for Father's Day. "The hole a man leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children is one that no government can fill,...http://www.newser.com/story/62277/obama-absent-dad-taught-me-value-of-fatherhood.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 19 Jun 2009 6:18:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57958/depression-in-dads-hurts-kids.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith modern fathers often more directly involved in parenting than previous generations, researchers say it’s time to pay closer attention to the impact of paternal mental health on children, the BBC reports. Existing evidence suggests that children of alcoholic or depressive fathers are likely to suffer psychiatric or behavior problems,...http://www.newser.com/story/57958/depression-in-dads-hurts-kids.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 04 May 2009 8:28:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56014/parenting-for-dummies-what-not-to-do.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMove over, arguments about organic baby food. A new set of books celebrates a less perfect kind of parenting—stories from moms and dads who mess up, and don't mind copping to it, the Wall Street Journal reports. Parents who let their toddlers watch too much TV or have read...http://www.newser.com/story/56014/parenting-for-dummies-what-not-to-do.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 13 Apr 2009 8:59:50 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50245/dads-may-hatch-schemes-to-leave-golden-nest-eggs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFrom King Lear to Tom Daschle, a father’s desire to provide for his children could leave them with a rather dubious inheritance—“a legacy of embarrassment,” Stephen Amidon writes in the New York Times . "Inheritances can be tricky things. Even those given with the best of intentions can often go...http://www.newser.com/story/50245/dads-may-hatch-schemes-to-leave-golden-nest-eggs.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 08 Feb 2009 13:29:00 CST