If you’ve got a history of cancer and a baby on the way, there’s a good chance that your baby will experience a “birth abnormality.” This abnormality, according to a recent study by Olof Ståhl, MD and company* can be as benign as a lower birth weight, or be a more “major abnormalities,” the specifics of which were buried past the point of the study where the reader falls asleep.

The study data, taken from what we can only describe as a crapload of Danes and Swedes. Don’t believe us? The full text of the study can be found here.

(*the “and company” refers to: Heather A. Boyd, Aleksander Giwercman, Morten Lindholm, Allan Jensen, Susanne Krüger Kjær, Harald Anderson, Eva Cavallin-Ståhl and Lars Rylander, which is the greatest list of names ever.)

Sauce: Doctor’s Lounge

The good news: Jose Agostinho Pereira was beheaded during a prison riot by not-so-fellow prisoners. He was in the middle of serving 30 years in prison because of…

The bad news: He spent his life raping his own daughter, “fathering” seven children with her. He went on to molest some of his grand/kids.

There’s nothing funny about rape, and this POS guy got what was coming to him. Other prisoners are never kind to child rapists – and it’s probably the opinion of many fathers out there that those prisoners are doing good work in making sure those rapists don’t hurt any other children.

Sadly, this was not the first time 8BitDad has run a story about someone raping their own daughter. As we said in the last story, make today the day that you thank your father for not being one of these men.

Sauce: True Crime Report

ShortList compiled a – wait for it – short list of movie-character-chicks that you wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole.

Among the undatable daughters – Kim Bauer from 24 and Princess Leia from Star Wars, though I’m wondering if she counts since she didn’t know Darth Vader was her father until right before the Emperor turned him into a microwave dinner.

Sauce: ShortList

The Good Men Project Magazine is a great read for the modern man and tackles a lot of “everyman” topics, with varying degrees of success, as you may know from our other past references to them. This time around, Hugo Schwyzer hits and misses in talking about the “princess culture” of little girls. His view piggybacks a story from Redbook, (that piggybacks Peggy Orenstein’s book, “Cinderella Ate My Daughter“) which suggests that little girls dressing like princesses (and being praised for their beauty when they do) makes them seek equal attention as they mature, thus, turning them slutty – since sluts clearly get a lot of attention.

We’re going to go a little Inception here, because I’m talking about GMPS’ article, that’s talking about Redbook’s article, that’s talking about Orenstein’s book. Hopefully we don’t open a wormhole or sink everyone into everlasting limbo. But no promises. These are fathers’ issues after all. Wormholes are to be expected.

John Donohue, of New Yorker fame, started the Stay at Stove Dad blog to talk about his experiences in the kitchen, cooking for his wife and daughters. He’s also got a book coming out in May, called “Man with a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers who Cook for Their Families,” which contains essays from other kitchen-capable dads.

Donohue did a little Q&A with Time.com recently, which touches on the same topics we’re all thinking as burger-flipping dads: how to cook “better” for your kids, how to reconcile a full work-week with wanting to cook for your family, and when to draw the line with a picky eater.

Like reading about fathers and food? Stay tuned for a regular column from 8BitDad called “NOM for Thought”, coming soon.

If you’re a new father in Singapore, you’ve got a total of ZERO days of paternity leave at your disposal. New mothers, on the other hand, receive four months. The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) sees this disparity and wants something done pronto. Singapore has four official languages, so we just gave it to you in Spanish instead.

AWARE said in a conference today (or yesterday, depending on the side of the world you’re on) that there are many reasons for the low birth rate in Singapore, but it’d sure help if mothers and fathers got equal treatment. Evidently, in societies where women are “forced” to be the sole caregiver, the birthrate is lower. If you have raised a small child, you know – if all you have to look forward to day and night is crying and crap-diaper changes, chances are you’re not having more than one.

Hey Hipsters!

Holy Taco wants you to think about your kids. Sure, your love of irony is soooooo hilarious now, but think about the questions you’ve got to answer from your kids.

From the article: …”now you’ve got the impossible task of trying to explain your love of irony to your kid. It will be frustrating. Just as frustrating as trying to explain your love of irony to your parents. Congratulations, our entire generation now is an inside joke!”

Or is that the point? When we ask our fathers why in all of their photos they’ve got a 70′s porn star look, they answer “because it was the 70′s”. When your kid asks you “dad why do you look like a 70′s porn star,” you’ve got to explain how achingly sh*tgrin ironic it was for you to look like a 70′s porn star when it wasn’t Halloween or the 70′s.

I’m sure if your kid stumps you, you can just think it out while you take a long ride on your fixie and drown your brain in The Shins greatest hits.

Chicks have it easy – hipster style for women is characterized most of the time by thick glasses and chunky sweaters, which makes them look a little more bookish with more slight undertones of punk culture. Hipster men, however, usually end up in silly trucker hats and ill-fitting snarky t-shirts. You don’t end up getting respect from your kid like that…even if you explain to him that his name was taken from some proto-modern-american novel.

Sauce: Holy Taco