In a time where split custody is common and mothers are working just as many hours as the men, fathers are being put to the parenting test more than ever. Sure there are the ones that don’t get their kids on a regular basis, or when they do, they have a step-mother that “steps” in and does all the work or a mother that does. Or there are the ones that dodge the kid bullet by tip toeing around the “subject” and going to play golf.

However, there are some men out there that are really stepping up to the plate and balancing starting to work towards a balance of all of the years of the single mom. Forget the days of not paying for the kid and leaving behind only their DNA strand, now not only must kids be paid for, but they must be taken care of as well. That is unless you are Eddie Murphy of course. Look at all of the other celebrity father’s who have fell off of the parenthood wagon, yet there’s not a whisper concerning it.

So what has contributed to the myth that women or mother’s are more capable parents than men? Would it be the eight o clock meals that possibly lack the green leafy stuff, or maybe a few forgotten naps? Why are women scrutinized and measured by their roles in motherhood while father s are looked at as hero’s for changing a diaper? More important, what can we do to change it? Maybe after dropping the load we should pick up our bag and say for the next nine months, it’s your turn while I lose myself in a book or make a million for us to live off of?

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