about this project
Go-to-work or stay-at-home? Increasingly, Moms work outside the home: women now comprise 46% of the American workforce. Also increasing is the number of dads who stay home. In 2007, fathers made up about 2.7 % of the nation’s stay-at-home parents. This figure may seem small, but consider that it’s triple the figure for 1997.
In contemporary families, two things are now true:
* Earning the income necessary to support a family is no longer the sole responsibility of men.
* Staying home to assume the daily care of our kids is no longer the sole responsibility of women.
Most families fall somewhere in the middle—both parents work, both take care of their kids. Each family chooses what works best for them.
The Parent du Jour will tell the stories of today’s families—one day, and one parent, at a time.
365 moms and dads, served fresh daily!
Our goal is to feature 365 moms and dads from around the world. We want to feature at least one parent from every country inthe world—195 at last count.
Moms, Dads, Grandparents, Guardians, Aunts and Uncles— all are welcome to participate
It doesn’t matter how young or old, seasoned or inexperienced, or whether a parent is single, married, civil-unioned, separated, widowed, divorced or re-married, or if their children are babies or completely grown, with children of their own. We consider anyone taking an active part in the raising of a child a candidate for this project. Grandparents, aunts, uncles—consider yourself invited.
Each day we’ll serve up a different parent telling us, in their own words, how they combine work, family, and life. Dads will be featured in our “A Dad a Day” series, moms in “Once Upon a Mom”.
get on the menu
If you’d like to be The Parent du Jour, or know of a parent you’d like to nominate for the title*, contact us at: info@theparentdujour.com. Please include The Parent du Jour in the subject line.
We are happy to publish the stories of our moms and dads as text, video, animation, cartoons—or in any other way you can imagine!
*We especially need help in finding parents who live outside the United States. We will gladly publish stories both in English and in each mom or dad’s native language(s).
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The Parent du Jour is our team’s first project.
Our larger vision includes parenting websites that are anchored in, and draw on, the strength of local communities.
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