I grew up in an abusive household. I wasn’t covered in bruises and forced to lie to cover up injuries, but looking back…it was abuse nonetheless. And it ran the spectrum. There was physical, mental, emotional, as well as sexual abuse in different times from different people across my life growing up. It left me in a weird place of depending on adults, but not trusting them with my needs.

I’ve been a SAHD for 3 years. I went back to work part time briefly before COVID but it was just the couple days a week my wife had off. My son is 3 and we are expecting our second in October. I plan to still be a SAHD with the second as well. We live on the central coast of California in a town called Los Osos. In the past 5 years we’ve lived here, the US Virgin Islands (through Hurricane Maria!), Florida, and now we’ve been back in California since July 2020.

Ed Lavezzo is a Stay at home dad for three wonderful kids, Stella (9), Kayla (8) & Ben (7). He has been married to his wife Cecilia for just under 11 years. They currently live in Essex Fells, NJ where she is a Gastroenterologist. Ed has been a SAHD since December 2016. Before that, he was a tax accountant for 15 years. “The toughest part for me in going from working a traditional office job to being a SAHD was losing the identity I didn’t know I had,”

Kyle Denny became a stay-at-home dad in 2017 when childcare providers became an issue. He is also a homeschool teacher, husband, and – perhaps equally importantly- a runner.

I was born and raised on a farm in Ohio. My mother was a stay-at-home mom who raised me, my sister, and my cousins. I spent every summer after the age of 8 working full-time with my father’s construction company which taught me a lot about hard work, but since my father was a workaholic it was not a healthy environment for kids. I grew up in a very dysfunctional family with no examples of good parenting or marriage.

Hello. My name is Chris Matthews and I have two children, my daughter who is 7 and a son who is 5 and I have been a Stay At Home Dad for 7 years now since my daughter was born. I honestly never envisioned being a SAHD (stay-at-home dad) as a possibility growing up, for one thing, I always wanted to become a commercial pilot but a diagnosis of a chronic illness as a teen cut that short. Then after moving away from home to another state for my wife’s job we eventually decided that it would make sense for me to stay home with our children.

Tim came into this role as an at-home dad when his niece and two nephews needed a safe and loving home. At the time, he was a web monkey for a fortune 500 company while his wife was an RN, BSN, and PHN on the Indian Reservation they live near. Needless to say, she had a greater income, but he could also work from home and be pickier with his clients. After a three-year custody battle, Tim and his wife obtained custody of their niece and nephews.