When our children were born, I worked days and my husband worked nights. In 1985, when our son was about to start kindergarten, we talked. We agreed to try having my husband stay at home while I worked outside the home. My salary and benefits could support our family. A rare decision back then. It worked for us. My husband is an excellent homemaker, and was rightly proud of his work. He didn't have much of a support group. Times have changed. There are now three fathers on our block who are home with their children full time.

I'm definitely one of those modern dads, my soon to be 8 yr. old twin daughters are my life. My advice to men, (and women for that matter): forget the "male breadwinner" ideology. Both my wife and I work full-time, and it gets busy, but luckily we both have decent vacation benefits that allow us good "family-time", and we both have day schedules. One thing this article doesn't mention that is encouraging, although there are wrinkles: conservative men are in on this, too. I am a highly progressive person, so what I'm doing fits with a pro-women's rights ideology. But I know a number of conservative men who spend a lot of time with their kids, including evangelicals and some conservative catholics. The unfortunate thing about this group IMHO is they still hang on to "the man is a leader" type ideas, or that too strong of a woman will lead to gay male children. Still, they are light years different than their own parents and fathers.

Someone should read this to Governor Dayton who vetoed a bill that would have increased custody to dads from 25% to 35% following divorce or separation.

Father's day is fine for this generation. The father of my children did just about nothing except but offer a paycheck. Doing anything around the house was OFF the list. He would claim he worked 8 hours every day -- while I probably worked 16 or more. Fathers of "years ago" did not very often deserve "fathers day".

@barbjens: "Fathers of 'years ago' did not very often deserve 'father’s day'". Oh, really. Wow, nothing like painting with a broad brush, seemingly with a healthy dose of misandry to boot. I think it’s fair to assume that, historically, there existed a great many mothers out there as well, who, due to laziness and general overall noncontributing, didn’t deserve a mother’s day all that much, either. So where would you have us go from here? Ah, but never mind, as demeaning, diminishing, and denigrating fathers – and men, generally – is always just A-OK.

When I took an assignment in Washington for 2 months people asked my who was going to take care of our daughter. In 1991 they were shocked when I told them her father was a perfectly capable. I am proud that my Son In Law is a stay at home dad. He is a wonderful father as was my husband. And in a moment of self congratulations I will say that the best piece of advice I gave my daughter that she listened to was "marry someone smart because life will always be more interesting". She also married someone very kind and that makes for a great spouse and great father.

And then there are the thousands of Dads out there that are denied being a father at all due to our corrupt family law system in Minnesota and elsewhere. Happy Father's Day!

The thousands and thousands of father's who are denied time and access to their children in the state of Minnesota is a tragedy. The family laws who enable family law lawyers, judges, and family court workers, and select politicians who profit from the current laws have seen to it that father's and their children will continue to be destroyed at any length as long as they can continue to make their careers off of the "divorce industry". Mark Dayton should be ashamed of himself for table vetoing a bill that would have done nothing else but give fathers more time with their children. Disgusted to be a citizen of this state.

Here's to everyone trying there best!