Talk:Stay-at-home dad
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There needs to be a consistent use of either "stay at home dad", "Stay at home dad", "Stay at Home Dad" or what not. Varying from line to line is very informal. --70.30.59.2 00:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Not to mention the complete lack of references 137.138.46.155 15:08, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
- Then please use the {{fact}} tag. --Zslevi 10:42, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
Heteronormative? Who the heck thinks this is about sexual orientation? The SAHDs that I regularly read tend to be aware of issues that all "at-home parents" face. Let's just call these folks at-home parents, shall we? That'll avoid any concern of who's gay and who is not when it comes to having kids. If we want an article about "gay parenting" then let's create one, shall we, and not try to turn this into that. (added: Oh look! We do have one at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_parenting -- go edit there if you want to address what makes gay at-home fathers different than nongay ones.) -- kctipton 19:21, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Who allowed the heteronormative label to be appended to this article? At the very least, please place irrelevant and misguided labels like that one to appear at the end of the article, not sitting in all their fatuousness at the head of an otherwise balanced article.
I'm thinking the person probably found it to be heteronormative because the tone of the article suggests that all families have a female parent and a male parent. This was the first thing that jumped out at me about the article. I'm going to edit it to reflect a more inclusive view though instead of putting the tag back on. Triangular 21:43, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
I would like to edit for grammatical correctness the sentence that currently reads, "In recent years, stay-at-home dads are becoming more common and accepted." The grammatical trouble I see is that the tenses of "are becoming" and "In recent years" don't match. I haven't been bold and made the edit because I recognize this is a sensitive topic, and some might see me suggested change as subtly introducing a subjective POV regarding the subject. My suggestion is, "In recent years, stay-at-home dads have become more common and accepted." I regret this text might seem to imply these changes are not continuing. Does their continuance deserve explicit mention, i.e. in a follow-on sentence? (N.B. there are plenty of other problems with this paragraph -- even with this same sentence. I'm willing to work on improving it slowly and incrementally.) Sdsds 05:04, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- This whole thing needs grammatical work. In addition to the inconsistent labeling, it is inconsistent in tense and number. This needs a liberal amount of editing.Bekhardt 21:59, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] external links
Slowlame.com was added to external links 1/13/2007, and I reverted. If you think you can justify the inclusion of slowlame, talk here before re-adding it. 71.112.109.243 20:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC) BR
