Pater Familias … because I'm your FATHER!

At-home Dad's self-pity sung in hilarious faux lament by NPR bard Keillor. POV is a house dad in northern Wisconsin, where he's a freak. But guys livin' the life in liblab metro areas -- like Pater -- also can relate to the challenges of making it in Mamaworld (See archived posts Brotherhood of Isolation and  The Capon Code). Hitting a nerve or two makes it funnier. Starts like so....

I'm the only living house dad in Eau Claire
Men who care for children — we are rare
It may be common in San Francisco or San Luis Obispo
But not there — in Eau Claire.

I'm the only living house dad in Eau Claire.
My wife is a dentist, I'm the au pair
I'm a swan in a herd of ducks and it's odd....

Hear it, read it, at Prairie Home Companion site.