Ein Beispiel f\u00fcr einen gelassenen Umgang auch mit sinkenden Zahlen bietet Brian Reid in seinen RebelDad Blog<\/a> zu den Zahlen der V\u00e4ter, die sich offiziell zuhause um ihre Kinder k\u00fcmmern, stay at home dads:<\/span><\/p>\n That’s 6,000 more than 2006 number, a modest 4 percent rise, and the highest figure ever. But … <\/span>The 2008 stats are now out<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and they are less, ahem, robust. According to the Census Bureau, 140,000 guys were staying home with the kids in 2008. Let me put that in historical context:<\/span><\/p>\n 2008: 140,000<\/span><\/p>\n 2007: 165,000<\/span><\/p>\n 2006: 159,000<\/span><\/p>\n 2005: 143,000<\/span><\/p>\n 2004: 147,000<\/span><\/p>\n So you’re probably saying „Whoa! what the hell is going on here?“ <\/span><\/p>\n In der Regel gibt es f\u00fcr Alles eine Erkl\u00e4rung: Here is my honest answer: looking closely at the numbers, the number of „all married couples with kids under 15“ (the group from which the Census Bureau plucks the at-home dad numbers) is down more than 1 million between 2007 and 2008. The <\/span>official explanation for this<\/span><\/a><\/span> is that the Boomer kids are finally out of the house, and us Gen Xer and Gen Yers are waiting longer on having kids, so the number of parents capable of staying home is down big (more than 5 %). This suggests that a bunch of at-home dads are now essentially empty nesters. <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.rebeldad.com\/rebeldad.gif\")
<\/a>\u201aBefore I get into the Census Bureau’s estimates for the number of at-home dads in 2008, I need to acknowledge the fact that I totally missed the estimate for 2007. For some reason, I never saw the number, which was buried in <\/span>this Excel spreadsheet<\/span><\/a><\/span>. I don’t feel terrible about it; the Census Bureau <\/span>apparently completely missed the number, too<\/span><\/a><\/span>. So … even though it is a year late, lets get a drumroll. The number of at-home dads in 2007 was … 165,000.<\/span><\/p>\n