Father's Milk: Nourishment and Wisdom for the First-Time Father Book

	Dedications
	Acknowledgments
	Prologue
	Introduction	1
	Father Quotient Questionnaire	5
Part I	Father and His Partner
Chapter 1	Learn to Swim in Estrogen	9
Chapter 2	Children Are Not Assets	13
Chapter 3	Some of the Best Moms Are Men	16
Chapter 4	She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not	19
Chapter 5	Count Me In	22
Chapter 6	Bring Home More than the Bacon	26
Chapter 7	Buoyant in Troubled Water	29
Chapter 8	Have a Life (You've Always Had One)	32
Chapter 9	Life after Birth	36
Chapter 10	Is There Sex after Birth?	39
Chapter 11	Take a Load Off Your Back	40
Chapter 12	In and Out of the Laundry Basket	44
Chapter 13	The Best Defense Is Not Being There	46
Chapter 14	Topsy Turvy	49
Chapter 15	It's Always Darkest before It's Totally Black	52
Chapter 16	Is There a Father in the House?	55
Chapter 17	The Vanishing Act	59
Chapter 18	Where Is Poppa?	63
Chapter 19	Kramer vs. Kramer Revisited	66
Chapter 20	Fathering Is a Word, Not a Sentence	69
Part II	Father and His Child
Chapter 21	Boy? Girl? (So Long as It's a Boy)	73
Chapter 22	Don't Put Your Baby to Work	77
Chapter 23	Babies Are Boring	79
Chapter 24	Inspirational Diaper Change	81
Chapter 25	The Child Is Not Father to the Man	84
Chapter 26	Children Are Built to Last	87
Chapter 27	Don't Make "Daddy, I Hardly Knew Ye" Your Child's Favorite Tune	91
Chapter 28	Chip off the Old Block	94
Chapter 29	Food for Thought	97
Chapter 30	The Truth Will Set You Free	102
Chapter 31	Get Your Own Damn Screwdriver!	107
Chapter 32	Glad, Not Sad	112
Chapter 33	I Have No Choice But ...	115
Chapter 34	Spare the Rod, Spare the Child, Part I	118
Chapter 35	Spare the Rod, Spare the Child, Part II	122
Chapter 36	Pain Hurts	128
Chapter 37	Don't Bite Your Child	132
Chapter 38	The Shame of It All	136
Chapter 39	When I Was Your Age	141
Chapter 40	The Father of the Year Award	144
Chapter 41	When You and Your Child Can't Make Beautiful Music Together	147
Chapter 42	Don't Teach Your Kid Everything You Believe--It May Be Hazardous to His Health	151
Chapter 43	My Child, My (Beloved) Monster	155
Chapter 44	Mentor-Tormentor	158
Chapter 45	The Naked Truth	161
Chapter 46	Goodbyes	167
Chapter 47	The Thought of Losing Your Child	173
Chapter 48	All You Need Is Love	176
Part III	Snapshots
Chapter 49	Toxic Messages	185
Chapter 50	Fast Food for Thought	190
	Epilogue	202
	Post Scriptum	204
	Index	209