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Naipaul is at his most incisive when he hits closest to what, for Americans, is home: Norman Mailer's quixotic 1969 mayoral campaign in New York City (his slogan: "Get Ready for the Norman Conquest!") or the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. It's a little unsettling to be seen...
Laut is part of a growing cadre of men who choose to care for their children at home while their wives or partners work. A diverse, zealously committed group that reflects a range of classes, occupations and ethnic backgrounds, these stay-at-home dads, or sahds, as they have been...
No one knows exactly how many stay-at-home dads there are in the U.S., but according to initial Census Bureau research, the number of fathers who choose to stay out of the work force exclusively to care for their children is 108,000, up from 11,000 in 1990...
Networking has helped fathers make the transition. Peter Baylies, a SAHD in North Andover, Mass., started the national newsletter At-Home Dad, now part of an online networking site, after feeling like "the class nerd at the playground with the moms, who would sort of stop talking when I sat...
So how come the crowd attending a convention of rural electric cooperatives in a Dallas hotel last week--men whose weathered faces spoke of long days riding tractors and branding cattle--was getting such a kick out of the afternoon's speaker, the African-American Democratic nominee for Senator? Ron...