The Tantrum: Are men no longer necessary?

(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) The cover story of the July/August issue of the Atlantic Monthly featured the provocative headline “The End of Men.” Hanna Rosin, the author of the piece, laid out the dire circumstances facing the …

Bad Dads We Love: More Reality for Jon Gosselin

Some day we won’t all have Jon Gosselin to kick around, but until that day comes, KICK AWAY, I say, and apparently, so too does Babble, which ran this short item from Famecrawler on the infamous father-of-many, on the five best show ideas in service of his perpetual pop cultural infamy. I won’t include the entire …

We Are HUGE Because Parents Fucking Love Us!!!

Well, actually, we are huge because Parents loves us. They really, really love us! Last night we heard from our blog-friend PetCobra at DadCentric that we’d been named to Parents magazine’s list of its five Favorite Daddy Blogs. According to Parents, we’re “a little better than most blogs.” Did you read that? A little better! …

It’s all right not to have kids

By coincidence I happen to have several women friends all of whom are in their mid-forties, are recently (within the last couple of years) married, and are all either having children or attempting to have them. As you might expect, the ones having babies have had some assistance from modern medicine (twins, anyone?), at times …