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#fathers — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fathers, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Ministry Investigates Seasonal Gratitude Syndrome

    The Ministry investigates why public gratitude for parents peaks on social media while actual parents remain busy doing what they've always done—parenting.

    satiregpt.wordpress.com/2026/0

  2. How #RemoteWork Has Helped a Generation of Working #Parents
    Post-#pandemic, openness to accommodating family needs made it possible for more #mothers and #fathers to balance work and parenting.
    “What the pandemic did was people all of a sudden were talking more about their families — ‘I have small kids’ or ‘I have a parent who’s sick’ — and it made everything easier. The pandemic is the main thing that has enabled me to remain in this job.”
    nytimes.com/2026/06/21/upshot/
    archive.is/20260625205332/http

  3. Tubefilter: On new channel, Technoblade’s dad will sustain his son’s lasting impact. “To meet the ongoing demand for more content, Alex’s father is taking ‘Technoblade never dies’ literally. The man known as Technodad has launched a new channel called Team Technoblade, which he will use ‘as a way of keeping my boy’s memory alive.'”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/17/tubefilter-on-new-channel-technoblades-dad-will-sustain-his-sons-lasting-impact/
  4. The availability of Vietnam War draft deferments for fathers led to large increases in U.S. fertility rates in the late 1960s among women in their early twenties (likely partnered with draft-eligible men).

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/339542

    #Vietnam #VietnamWar #Draft #DraftDeferments #Fathers #FertilityRates #NICHDimpact @Histodons.a.gup.pe

  5. In spring 2020, U.S. fathers did more housework and childcare than usual when both partners worked from home, but the gender gap in domestic work did NOT change because mothers also did more.

    ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/355996

    #COVID-19 #Covid19 #Gender #DivisionofLabor #HouseholdLabor #Housework #DomesticWork #Childcare #Fathers #Mothers #NICHDImpact