Word: fatherhood
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...dads really deserve a day? I'm not sure it's the right spirit with which to approach the task. It sort of implies that you should get a medal. [Fatherhood] is just a thing you do. It's like saying that there should...
...Poker, he laid bare the freewheeling culture of Wall Street bond traders; in Moneyball, he broke down the statistical alchemy of managing a pro-baseball team. In his latest book, however, his subject is far humbler, and has much to be humble about. Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood is a memoir of Lewis' own first steps (and missteps) as a father - one who shirks diaper-changing, passes out drunk as his wife prepares to deliver their second child and ponders whether most of his fellow dads are actually faking it most of the time. He talked to TIME...
...loves her husband more than her children and wants to have a career. And she was pilloried for this. Is there a double standard there? Of course. There is no question that it is easier to outrage people by celebrating one's bad motherhood than celebrating one's bad fatherhood. People cut men more slack. Ayelet is writing a much more controversial book than I ever could unless I said something like, "I intend to kill my children." (Read an interview with Ayelet Waldman...
Patten, Alfie • furor over fatherhood of, given 13-year-oldness...
...Throughout these larger histories, Sardar weaves in personal stories. The fact of his new fatherhood becomes a path into an essay on the British rewriting of India's past. The shocking discovery that his paternal grandfather fought for the British in the Second Afghan War prompts a disinterment of the long chain of cause and effect that has led to Afghanistan and the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan becoming one of the world's most unstable regions. There are genuinely illuminating sections, such as the one on the distinction between Deobandi and Barelvi Muslims and how an appreciation...