Here is a interesting article that discusses if working dads really need support groups?

What’s your view?

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Working Dad: Do dads really need support groups?

By PAUL NYHAN
P-I REPORTER

This may be the era of the evolving dad who changes more diapers, reads extra Dr. Seuss books and spends added time raising his children. But when he looks for support groups in Seattle, he sees mostly moms.

Despite the well-documented rise of co-parenting, the family industrial complex — replete with support groups, list-servs, glossy parenting magazines, books and even diaper commercials — often ignores the male side of parenting.

Yet fathers need more help than ever. On average, working dads in two-career households spent nearly 1.2 hours a day directly caring for their young children from 2003 to 2006, according to federal data. (Women spent 2.6 hours.)

“We’ve provided very little help and resources for fathers who want to do more for their families than hunt wild boar and guard the frontiers against the Visigoths,” said Jason Avant, who runs the popular dadcentric.com blog that runs the gamut from “Man vs. Wild” to ultrasounds.

more here: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/350479_dad08.html