Gendered parenting: Moms do parenting, Dads do ??

Every time I see the cover of Parenting Magazine I'm surprised by the tagline:

"What matters to moms"

Here is the cover of the most recent issue. Where are dads? What sort of parenting do they do?

Posted by Anonymous Monday, March 24, 2008 at 12:21 AM Labels: , ,  

5 comments:

  Anonymous

March 23, 2008 at 3:01 PM

Exactly. The magazine is called "Parenting" after all, not "Mothering."

  Jesse Hires

March 23, 2008 at 3:39 PM

Being a single dad, I do the very best I can.

  Umlud

March 24, 2008 at 7:34 AM

I wonder... do magazines like Parenting claim that they can't market to fathers, since men don't buy the magazine? (Of course, if they did market to fathers, they would likely easily get fathers to buy the magazine.) This is my pet peeve with magazines like this one, as well as 'zines like many cooking mags as well as "house-keeping" magazines like Real Simple. Speaking as a man, I choose specifically NOT to buy these magazines, since they do not even attempt to market to people like me.

I think there is a ripe story on the flip-side to this one.

  Anonymous

March 30, 2008 at 6:58 PM

Most of the magazine is selling cute baby products anyway. They print the same couple of statistics and vague mentions to "recent studies show" about stuff, and have a couple of columns about how hard parenting is, and that's pretty much it.

  Anonymous

March 31, 2008 at 12:47 PM

As a father who works with my wife to raise our kids together, I always find Mother-centric child rearing articles a little annoying.

The more I put into raising my kids, more annoyed I get. Is there a fathering magazine I'm suppose to be looking at that teaches me to let my wife do everything and only raise my kids when I'm interested? I'm glad I missed that magazine. How being a mom...er Dad changes you indeed.

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