Editor’s Note: City Dads Group is proud to occasionally feature writing from members of The Handsome Father, a support community that helps connect, prepare and inspire gay fathers. In this piece, Patrick Roth writes about letting his new husband into his daughter's life.I was a single parent during my daughter’s preschool years. It was a period of transition for us. We moved from the West Coast to the Midwest, contracted to build our first house and learned to live with the new dynamic of single dad and his little girl. I can remember tucking her in, reading bedtime stories and … [Read more...]
Lessons on Race, Culture from a Foreign Land
It starts with the term gweilo, a frequently used Cantonese slang word for foreigners -- most commonly, white people. Its literal translation is “Ghost Man” or “Foreign Devil.”
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Editor’s note: Former NYC Dads Group member Marty Forth and his family left Manhattan for Hong Kong in early 2015. He wrote this about his experience with the unique cultural differences he faces in raising a child of mixed race in a foreign country for our NYC blog last year.We knew our move to Hong Kong would not mean everything would be magic dragon dances and … [Read more...]