What Youre Doing Is Important

Published: April 2, 2020, 1 p.m.

These are strange times to be a father. Fathers have never been expected to do more\u2014around the house, in their children\u2019s lives. This is wonderful. It\u2019s also challenging and confusing because societal expectations and the actual process for preparing new dads for doing these things are not quite in alignment. At the same time, the word \u201cmasculine\u201d is not indelibly connected to that idea of \u201ctoxic masculinity.\u201d So much of what it has and continues to mean to \u201cbe a man\u201d are now denigrat...