re: Millennial Dads spend 3x more time with their kids

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I just disagree with the Year bands of millennials. Wikipedia says 1981-1996. That’s a humongous band with a lot of differences. I didn’t have a cell phone in HS and was using Napster in college. A little different than someone born in 1996.

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On a long enough timeline, you'll likely see social scientists embracing the Xennial label, but until then, we're Millennials. The more we own it, the more we crush the silly stereotypes.

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Single income families were pretty much the norm when I was growing up though.

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Good thing that has changed.

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Wasn’t that long ago that the term used was Generation Y

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For Millennials, yes. But even back then, there were grumblings about how messy the line was between X and Y because you had a generation of about a decade that sits right on the line and essentially "grew up" with the technological revolution, giving them fundamentally different upbringings than the Xers that came before and the late Ys that came after.

The majority of dads back then didn’t even give a frick enough to go in the delivery room

This is because most of them don't work so they can't afford childcare thus the wife tells them to watch the kids all day.

But they are staring at their phones while Jr rolls around on the floor

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No child remembers being bathed and diapered.

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That doesn't mean they don't bond more with the parent doing everything with them.

I’m a father of three, born in 1989. I’m trying to turn at least one of my sons gay.

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I don't see any millenniums working over 40 hr./wk

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Hi, I’m TulaneUVa. Nice to meet you.

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Xennial label

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1) Did you just make that up?
2) Who gives a shite which word they label you with. It’s all about your behavior.