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Sites Relating to House Fathers
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Full-Time Dads goal is providing support and education for primary caregiver fathers, both married and single while providing outreach and encouragement for all fathers to promote fathers as active caregivers for their children.
Full-Time Dads believes that active involved fathers is an essential element in healthy families and society.
Full-Time Dads was created to provide a forum fathers who believe that fatherhood is of primarly importance in their daily lives. The name, Full-Time Dads, relates to the recognition that being a father is a full-time committment and a full-time occupation.
Currently Minnesota Dads At Home Has 80+ members which makes it the largest group serving at home fathers in the nation. Many of the members meet regularly for playgroups, programs and Dad's night out. Please visit our web site for more information. Contact Mark Abraham for more information.
At-Home Dad newsletter is devoted to providing connections and resources for the 2 million fathers who stay home with their children. At-Home Dad is published by Peter Baylies which also publishes the Dad-To-Dad information. Send Peter Baylies e-mail for more information.
Dad-to-Dad was started in 1995 by Curtis Cooper in Atlanta, GA. The group began as a way for full-time dads to get together with other full-time dads. At weekly playgroups, the kids get to enjoy playtime together, and the dads can talk about... ya know, dad stuff. In addition, we also schedule field trips, family weekends, and dads' night out dinners. Overall, it's a great way to meet other guys who stay home with their kids, get out of the house and socialize, and not feel like "Mr. Mom."
Scottsdale AZ
Karl Ochsner
Rosewell, GA
Curtis Cooper - Founder
Shawnee Mission, KS
Charles Mallory
Lexington, MA
Scott Bokun
Richmond, VA
Scott Hahn
Glenview, Illinois
Dr. Bob Frank
Twin Cities, MN
Mark Abraham
Dad-to-Dad is an organization for Dads who stay at-home with their children. Dad-to-Dad was founded by Curtis Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia in 1995. The group, first called "Mr. Mom", was started with only a few Dads in the surrounding Atlanta area. When Curtis first became an At-Home Dad, he tried joining groups of At-Home Moms in their playgroups. He was looking for a group that could help meet a certain need all of us Full-Time Dads have - support, networking and a playgroup for the kids. Despite his attempts to "fit-in", Curtis still felt something needed to be done to pull together other At-Home Dads. So, he formed "Mr. Mom". After some discussion with other Dads about this name, it was unanimously decided to change the name of the organization to Dad-to-Dad. The organization has grown by leaps & bounds and has even gone international with chapters all over North America and in other countries as well.
Our goal is to provide opportunities for fathers to interact through social outings, "Dads Only" nights, play groups, telephone calls, email, and online chats. We understand the importance of the entire family and have several opportunities for all our families to get together in a variety of fun settings.
Right now, we in Charlottesville are still defining what our group will be
and do. For now, we have a playgroup once a week where our children can play with each
other and where we can talk to other men who are taking an active role in rearing their
children.
Currently, our group is made up primarily of at-home fathers; however, other fathers and
mothers are welcome to join us. After all, it is important that our children see that
women can stay at home with the children too and that fathers can be out in the workplace.
Dan Dunsmore is the organizing force behind the Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter of
Dad-to-Dad. You can contact him via E-mail: Dan
Dunsmore
The Daddys Home web site and the Daddys Ring were created to fill a need. Many parenting websites exist, but not many of them specialise in catering to the special needs and questions of fathers that are primary caregivers. Whether it's because your a single parent or your spouse is the one who goes to the office every day, you have found a place to ask questions, get information and, most importantly, find support from other men like you.
"House Fathers" is like housewife. We are always cooking, shopping foods, housekeeping, and so on. Of course, not only these things, but we also compose and perform our own music. We always discuss about way of life, system of human cognition, ideas of philosophers, our own being, and music. Through these discussion, we've been agreed on making a record label, Jizai Records.
This page is dedicated to all you House Husbands out there. I am Gary Burfield-Wallis and live in the U.K. I decided to become a house husband when our son Nathaniel was born back in February 1995. This decision was made based mostly on economic reasons, ie. my wife Sally earned more than me, and also because we had decided that we didn't want any one else raising our children.
If you are one of us House Husbands make sure you visit us often as I will be updating this page often with tips, info and all manner of things that I hope will be of interest to you.Please take the time to e-mail Gary Burfield-Wallis and let me know if you like this page or not and to pass on any thing you have that I could include on this page.