When I first heard of the term ‘hands-on dad’, I thought: Wait, what? Is that a thing? Shouldn’t dads be hands-on?

A year or two ago, I read a historical single dad novel.

And I was surprised when the author wrote that the said hero was known to come into his daughter’s nursery and read bedtime stories to her every night.

That act shocked both the nanny and the general public who knew about this act because it was unheard of for a dad to enter his child’s nursery, let alone if that child is a girl.

But of course, that particular topic is a discussion for another day.

When I grew up, I realized that not many dads are hands-on; not enough dads are involved.

Have you heard of the statement “married, single mother?”

Believe it or not, that’s the story of a lot of married mothers.

I read a Twitter thread, and this man was arguing that it is better to be an inconsistent dad than not be in the picture.

You need to see the comments, people were saying all kinds of things like

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