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Talking With Real Live Stay-At-Home Dads

moreintelligentlife.com   |  Miranda Green   |   December 24, 2007 11:35 AM

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A sunny morning in the affluent London suburb of Wimbledon, and the atmosphere in the playgroup is jolly, but a good deal quieter than you would expect with 13 children and 12 adults milling around a church hall. The reason isn't hard to spot: the parents are all men, and there is a certain masculine reserve in the air. Welcome to Dads and Little'Uns.

Chatting over coffee and an impressive array of biscuits, the ten or so fathers maintain a low hum of conversation, breaking off every so often to rescue a toddler from underneath a fallen toy or to redirect an off-target crawl. The men bring their children here every Monday and Friday, all year round (£4 a week into the kitty to cover costs). Theirs appears to be the first and perhaps only regular group for stay-at-home fathers in London. They are part of a growing trend for husbands to move on to traditional female territory, taking care of home and children while their high-powered other half is out hunting and gathering.

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I am the proud wife of a 13 year stay at home dad, and all I can do is to thank him.

When the kids were younger it was so much easier to leave for work in the morning knowing that they were going to be able to stay home with their father.

Now, he does cub scouts, basketball coaching, and intense chauffeur work, as well as general house stuff and shopping etc..

I help out, but know that if I don't do something, it will still get done.

Sure, I am jealous in the summer when the kids are off from school and the rest of the family is going to the pool, but it's worth it. We're all better off than if we had a two job family. I feel that we are luck to be able to afford it.

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