{"id":1652,"date":"2009-06-17T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2009-06-17T07:40:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:40:47","slug":"the-dad-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/06\/17\/the-dad-block\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dad Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:cOa-oQd8ewuzMM:http:\/\/z.about.com\/d\/parentingteens\/1\/5\/2\/7\/dad1aup.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>We&#8217;ve heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cockblock\">cock block,<\/a> right?  Well, here&#8217;s a new one (I just made it up &#8212; maybe): the Dad block.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Wall Street Journal article today, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124519757969321229.html &lt;http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124519757969321229.html\">Helping Moms to Let Dads Be Dads,&#8221;<\/a> research shows how kids benefit from having a positive, involved father, but negative &#8220;gatekeeping&#8221; by mothers can be an obstacle.\u00c2\u00a0 Hmm&#8230;Must go investigate this.<\/p>\n<p>For another look at modern fatherhood, check out Sharon Jayson&#8217;s article in USA Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2009-06-16-dad-fathers-parenting_N.htm\">&#8220;New Daditude&#8221;. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look for more from me on dads at Slate&#8217;s <em>The Big Money <\/em>on Friday!  And, of course, ahem, at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday at 2pm, where I&#8217;ll be whooping it up with my fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womengirlsladies.blogspot.com\">WomenGirlsLadies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\">CCF <\/a>and to Rebekah at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womensmediacenter.com\"> WMC<\/a>&#8211;always&#8211;for the heads ups)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve heard of the cock block, right? Well, here&#8217;s a new one (I just made it up &#8212; maybe): the Dad block. According to a Wall Street Journal article today, &#8220;Helping Moms to Let Dads Be Dads,&#8221; research shows how kids benefit from having a positive, involved father, but negative &#8220;gatekeeping&#8221; by mothers can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8959,2715,3109],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-families","tag-fatherhood","tag-motherhood"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}