Piggybacking on Kat’s post about the high cost of parenting, I noticed that S-townMike at Enclave has a few things to say about not only the perception of stay-at-home dads, but the terminology applied to them.

“Mr. Mom” is a quaint, period-piece movie, but it is about as relevant today as Betamax […].

As an interesting postscript, he quotes a WSJ article describing, among other things, the high costs to men who choose to stay at home:

At-home dads often pay an even higher career price than moms. After dropping out in 2001 for what he thought would be 18 months caring for his son, Eric Sonntag, a former magazine-circulation director, found returning to work so difficult that he had to job-hunt for two years, then take a 20% pay cut. Staying home “set my career back half a decade,” says the Forest Hills, N.Y., father. He was “looked at askance” by many hiring managers, he says. When he explained what he had been doing, some asked disdainfully, “What else did you do?”