an attorney. and i do have that passion as a dad. >> reporter: lester is a stay-at-home dad and much less of an exception than he once was. because our culture is changing beyond the driving forces of economics and employment. the detergent commercial that once featured mom has dad doing the laundry. >> i'm a dad/mom. >> reporter: and fathers changing spread sheets for clean sheets, once a novelty are now a regular popular culture. >> my god. >> at least you don't have to work. >> because raising a human is no work at all. >> reporter: in fact, the number of stay-at-home dads has almost doubled in the past decade to five million today and counting. >> i'm proud to consider myself a stay-at-home dad. and my -- my feelings of what i think about myself are completely tied to my daughter.