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Shared Experience: Series 5: Don't call us Barry Poppins. We're stay-at-home dads

24/05/2016

Don't call us Barry Poppins. We're stay-at-home dads

Series 5

BBC Radio 4 - Shared Experience, Series 5, Don't call us Barry Poppins. We're stay-at-home dads

Fi Glover talks to three men who have chosen to stay at home looking after their children.

Fi Glover talks to three men who have chosen to stay at home looking after their young children, while their wives go out to work.

There's nothing heroic about a man giving up work to look after the children while his wife goes out to work, say Sam, Richard and Josh, and yet as these three Dads tell Fi Glover, people often perceive them as being somehow remarkable for electing to be the primary carer. House husband or Barry Poppins are two terms that annoy them. Why wouldn't any man want to spend time with his children given the choice? Does 'providing for your children' have to mean sitting in an office for 8 hours a day? They discuss the highs and lows and differences of being a stay-at-home-Dad with candour and humour.

Producer: Maggie Ayre.

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