29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Fathers Underepresented in Children's Stories
The very first article I ever had published appeared in Newsweek and was called "Not All Men Are Sly Foxes." It was all about what I perceived to be the negative stereotyping of fathers in children's literature. I spent an entire day in the children's section of my local library talking to the librarians and reading children's books, and found that dads were almost completely absent. In the vast majority of children's books, a mom is the only parent, while the dad—if he appears at all—was...Father's are either not present at all or under-represented in children's stories, leading to a question of cause and effect.