For decades, we’ve endured a relentless cultural campaign of blaming and shaming men to “do more” at home. It seems to have worked spectacularly. Yet the public narrative refuses to update. Instead of celebrating this progress, media outlets, academics, and social-media scolds keep hammering the same tired message: dads are lazy, absent, and insufficient. I see articles and memes daily still shaming and blaming men to “step up” while framing women as victims. It’s time to retire the guilt trip. "The cultural tropes about Dads being disinterested are being demolished one study after another.” @RichardvReeves tells Evie. “We've seen an astonishing shift in fatherhood in the real lives of American families, one that directly contradicts much of the current cultural gender commentary.” Read my latest for Evie: