Jordan Shapiro, PhD, is the author of 'Father Figure: How to Be a Feminist Dad' and 'The New Childhood.' He teaches in Temple University’s Intellectual Heritage Program and is a senior fellow for the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, and nonresident fellow in the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. He is father to two children and step-father to two more, and lives in Philadelphia with his partner Amanda Steinberg.