White Lightning Axiom: Redux: Gen X Daddy

Monday, January 17, 2005

Gen X Daddy

Okay, this is a strange way to find it ... re:becca to melizza to Being Daddy. Pretty cool article, about 7 pages of coolness. Here is the part I can understand:

In Britain, researchers interviewed dozens of fathers in 2002, finding the traditional role has been replaced by a collection of new father personalities. The Enforcer Dad, a dying breed, is the strict disciplinarian; the Entertainer Dad is the family clown who distracts his kids while the mother attends to household tasks; the Useful Dad pitches in, though rarely takes the initiative; and the Fully Involved Dad jumps into domestic matters equally with his wife.
Beyond these labels, there is another: Exhausted Dad.
John Carson of Belmont is another member of the Dads in the Dark crowd who is among the chronically fatigued. On a November evening after work, the 35-year-old vice president of sales at Fidelity Investments in Boston raced home to greet his three children, a 4-year-old son and twin 2-year-old daughters. He is almost always there by 6 p.m.

I wonder if they would consider Exhausted Utilitarian Gen X MS Dad.

# posted by mdmhvonpa @ 6:03 PM