Byline portrait of Martin Robinson.
(Picture: Matt Writtle)I was a classic stay-at-home dad in the way that I was never a stay-at-home dad. Instead I was a dad “working on projects” that happened to be the type of projects that could be done on a laptop while drop-kicking juice-covered jogging bottoms into the washing machine. A new study has found that stay-at-home dads have gone up by a third since the pandemic. As the number was already quite low, this is by no means a society-
changing moment (it’s now 141,000 dads, compared to 1.2 million stay-at-home mums) but it is indicative of a gradual gender shift in childcare, particularly when you consider the number of stay-at-home dads who don’t identify as such — y’know, because of the “projects”.
