{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Startup Dad","title":"Why Dads Want to Do More at Home—but Still Don’t | Brad Harrington (Dad of 3, Work-Family Scholar)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e2df5e1f\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5036,"description":"Brad Harrington is the former Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family and spent nearly two decades at Hewlett-Packard, earning his PhD along the way.\n\nHe walked away from corporate America and took a  75% pay cut to become one of the leading researchers on fatherhood, caregiving, and work-family integration. Now retired, Brad is a happily married dad of three who has spent the last quarter-century studying why men struggle to escape work-family conflict. We discussed:\nThe 3 Archetypes of Modern Fatherhood: Breaking down traditional, egalitarian, and conflicted fathers - and why the \"conflicted\" bucket is consistently the largest group.\nThe Caregiving Gap: Why 70% of fathers report wanting a 50/50 caregiving split, yet only 35% actually live it.\nThe Financial & Organizational Traps: The economic pressures and workplace cultures that keep men locked into primary breadwinner roles even when they want out.\nThe Power of Early Paternity Leave: Why taking dedicated time off in the first few weeks of a child's life sets the trajectory for a dad's hands-on caregiving identity for decades.\nThe Dual-Career Lifecycle: How couples navigate moving through stages from allies and acrobats to adversaries and accommodators.\nThe Danger of Over-Scheduling Kids: Why competitive youth sports and hyper-structured childhoods are stripping kids of independence and unstructured play.\nWhy Parenting Never Ends: Lessons from raising three adult children through career shifts, health struggles, and navigating relationship dynamics across decades.\nWhere to find Brad Harrington\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradharrington/ \nWhere to find Adam Fishman\nFishmanAF Newsletter: www.FishmanAFNewsletter.com \nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjfishman/ \nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/startupdadpod/ \nX: https://x.com/fishmanaf\n\nIn this episode, we cover:\n(00:00) Welcoming Brad Harrington, former Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/F_yCls74GdKLzmfCUXKoHwqOZKN_mFb5zL7jtAWlzzU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wYjMx/Yzg1NmIzMjBiZmE4/ZGFiM2ZjMjQ2Yjcy/OTY2OS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}