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- The number of stay-at-home dads in the US has nearly doubled over the past 30 years.
- While being a stay-at-home dad is still not widespread, gender norms are shifting.
- It could be an alternative for the American men facing a dour workplace outlook.
Andrew Ebright loves his job. It's the best thing he's ever done.
For the past 18 months, he's been working as a stay-at-home dad, taking care of his son. It was a surprising pivot: When he met his now-wife 10 years ago, it was a path he told her he was completely uninterested in.
"I just thought that that would be boring and a bad use of my skill set, and it would force me to do a lot of things that I'm not great at," Ebright, who previously worked as a lawyer, told Insider.