"Slate" author slanders fathers

Writing for Slate, anti-male author Katherine Reynolds Lewis transforms a positive Boston College study (.pdf file) on the expanding role of fathers into a defamation of fatherhood entitled "Why Do Dads Lie on Surveys About Fatherhood?"

After making an inappropriate comparison between the self reported parenting time of the fathers in the study to Census Bureau statistics, Lewis falsely concludes: "The answer, it turns out, is that the men in the Boston College study were probably lying about how they spend their time."

In a comment to Lewis' article, the authors of the BC study flatly reject her conclusion: "As a qualitative research study, we sought to chronicle these men’s personal experiences as fathers and professionals. While we did not validate their self-reported estimates of time spent in parenting activities through other sources (e.g. their spouses or direct observation) as one might do in a time-use study, that was never our intent. We therefore have no basis to state that these numbers are accurate or inaccurate."