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Parody: I'm A Daddy & I Know It [VIDEO]

Mark Richards — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 10:35:42 +0000

Sure it's six months until Father's Day but since I'm a daddy and proud of it, I thought I'd share a hilarious video featuring a father of five. I wonder where mom is? She must be a work helping to support all those kids and that wonderful home they live in. So go ahead and enjoy three minutes of a daddy's day set to the tune of LMFAO's "Sexy & I Know It"

Huggies Yanks Controversial Ad Campaign That Infuriated Fathers [VIDEOS]

Shauna Wright — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:15:15 +0000

Diaper maker Huggies, which recently launched an ad campaign that seemingly depicted fathers as less-than-capable parents, has pulled the television commercials and issued a mea culpa. In the campaign, dads housed together were given Huggies diapers and wipes and left to care for their babies themselves for five days. A Facebook page was then set [...]

Depressed Fathers Can Cause Behavioral Issues in Kids — Health Check

Shauna Wright — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:14:58 +0000

A study of 20,000 US families found kids with fathers suffering from depression are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems than other children.

Michael Weitzman at the New York University School of Medicine, who authored the study, said these findings are especially important at a time when unemployment is high and some military dads are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq with emotional wounds.

Fatherhood Can Cause a Drop in Testosterone Levels

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:05:06 +0000

In the first study of its kind, researchers compared the testosterone level of men when they were single and childless to their testosterone level after they had had a child. While testosterone always decreases when men age, the decline was much more pronounced among the men who had become fathers. Anthropologists from Northwestern University took testosterone samples from men [...]