Jeremy Adam Smith
Is profeminist fathering possible? Is it achievable for white parents to raise non-prejudiced children? Can a society in the throes of economic crisis embrace compassion and sharing?
Jeremy Adam Smith thinks that the answer to all these questions is yes—and he’s done the research to prove it. He is the author of The Daddy Shift (Beacon Press, 2009), which the San Francisco Chronicle hails as "amazing," author Lisa Jervis calls "a major contribution," Mothering magazine praises as "engagingly persuasive," and UrbanBaby rates as one of "the best of 2009."
A journalistic expert on the science of compassion, empathy, egalitarianism, and reconciliation, Jeremy is also the co-editor of The Compassionate Instinct (W.W. Norton & Co., January 2010) and Are We Born Racist? (Beacon Press, August 2010).
Jeremy works as the editor of the new online magazine and community Shareable.net and is the contributing editor of Greater Good magazine, where he is the former senior editor. During his three-year tenure with the print edition of Greater Good, the magazine was nominated for multiple Maggie and Independent Press awards. In 2010-11, Jeremy will be a Knight fellow at Stanford University.
His essays, short stories, and articles on parenting, popular culture, urban life, and politics have appeared in Mothering, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Utne Reader, BusinessWeek.com, Wired, and many other periodicals and books. Jeremy has also been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, USA Today, GQ, Nightline, Salon.com, ABC News, NBC News, and many NPR shows. He has spoken to audiences around the country about parenting, equality, urban life, and the media.
Jeremy is available to talk on topics such as:
- How the Great Recession is Changing the Balance of Power Between Men and Women, Mothers and Fathers
- How Breadwinning Moms and Caregiving Dads are Transforming the American Family
- Feminist Fathering: An Oxymoron?
- How Moms and Dads can Design an Egalitarian Relationship
- How to (Try to) Raise a Post-Prejudiced, Post-Sexist Child
- Design Fundamentals for a Compassionate, Egalitarian, Sharing Society
- What Happens When Compassion Hurts? How Caregivers Can Survive Compassion Fatigue
- How to Build a Mission-Driven Journalism Career
What People Are Saying
“Jeremy Adam Smith is a most purposeful father, a periodic stay-at-home dad who sees his role as not just a choice that’s best for his family but as a sign of a rapidly changing societal landscape. The Web site he founded, Daddy Dialectic, has become a place for men to discuss the practical parts of parenting, as well as the philosophical, economic and political pieces. And his new book, The Daddy Shift, is a chronicle of a time that he predicts we will look back upon as the start of permanent change.” —Lisa Belkin, The New York Times
“Jeremy Adam Smith writes so well and so honestly about his love of staying home with his son, about the economics of his family life, and about the politics of our nation at large. Whoever doesn’t already think the public and the domestic are linked needs to read his work.” —Miriam Peskowitz, author of The Truth behind the Mommy Wars and coauthor of The Daring Book for Girls
“The Daddy Shift is a major contribution to a growing field. Both Jeremy Adam Smith’s research and his personal observations cast valuable light on a topic that’s vital to us all, no matter our gender or whether we parent.” —Lisa Jervis, founding editor of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture
“Are We Born Racist?, co-edited by Jeremy Adam Smith, is “the most revealing and important treatment of human prejudice to appear in years. Revolutionary insight follows revolutionary insight in this broadly accessible book, accumulating to nothing less than a paradigm shift that will change how we think about everything from how prejudice affects our own lives to how laws and institutional practice can be used to reduce its ill effects. And it does it all with a brevity that I hope will insure what it deserves most: to be broadly read. ” —Claude M. Steele, author of Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us
“Forty years ago, a man who wanted to share child-care equally with his wife would have been called ‘deviant’ and a wife who wanted him to would have been condemned as an ‘unnatural’ mother. The Daddy Shift shows how far we have come and how much we have to gain by completing this revolution in marriage and parenthood.” —Stephanie Coontz, author of Marriage, a History: How Love Conquered Marriage
