Google's View of Stay-at-Home Dads
This is the sad reality of looking up stay-at-home fathers at our favorite search engine. You really can't blame Google as there are less than 150,000 of us in the United States.
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5 comments received. Post a comment.That response seems to reenforce cultural stereotypes about the kind of people who stay at home and raise children.
I suppose it is all automated, but still there should be more sensitivity--the word "father" is not really that close to the word "mother" in the likelihood that one will misspell mother and accidently end up with father....
# Posted by: That Queer Expatriate at October 9, 2006 03:51 AM
Interestingly, most men I know say they'd have no objection to staying at home and taking care of the kids, if their wives made enough money to support them all.
The general attitude seems to be that it would be something to brag about: "Yeah, my wife is a neurosurgeon, makes 200K per year, so I told my old boss where he could stick his quarterly reports. Now I get to watch TV and play with my kids all day."
# Posted by: Brother at October 13, 2006 02:22 PM
Watch TV and play?
If only!
There is clothing to forget to wash, floors to neglect to mop, grass to put off mowing, dusting to ignore. And that is just on Tuesday.
I hope you didn't post that from work.
# Posted by: Domoni at October 13, 2006 03:33 PM
I'm just reporting the attitude I've observed -- what little I know about child care comes entirely from having been a child. :)
# Posted by: Brother at October 20, 2006 02:24 PM
Aw! How sad! I think stay-at-home-dads are awesome- wish we could all work from home and spend more time with our children, you know, rather than having them just so some one besides their parents could raise them! (stay at home fascist, who me?) Too bad google doesn't agree, but hey, what does it know? It's just a stupid search engine.
# Posted by: Vivian at November 2, 2006 01:06 AM
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