Dads willing to pay for time with kids http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/worklife/06/13/cb.dads.home/index.html
------------------------------------------------------------ Many working dads would be willing to trade work for family time if it were financially possible, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual "Working Dads" survey.
Thirty-seven percent say they would take a pay cut if it meant spending more time at home.
Of those fathers, 42 percent say they would take a pay cut of 10 percent or more. Of dads who live in households with more than one income, 37 percent would leave their job if their family could live off their spouse or significant other's income. ------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------- "The societal view of dads is that we're bumbling fools," Steve Dubin tells his all-male audience. It's Saturday morning in Weymouth, Mass., and 14 soon-to-be fathers are paying him to help keep them from fulfilling that stereotype. Dubin, a p.r. executive and Little League coach, pairs three rookies with three dads willing to hand over their babies for training purposes. Support the head, the instruction begins. Act naturally because babies can smell fear. Roll them over and rub their backs if they start to cry. "You'll probably hold the baby differently from your wife. That's O. K.," Dubin says. "But this will be the beginning of, 'Why are you doing it that way?'" he warns. "Tell your wife, 'We're going to do things differently, and you have to allow me to.'" -----------------------------------------------------------
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