Title: The Important Role of Dad | HuffPost Life
Headings: The Important Role of Dad
The Important Role of Dad
While almost any man can father a child, there is so much more to the important role of being dad in a child's life. Let's look atfather is, and why he is so important.
How fathers influence our relationships.
Raise the kind of person you'd like to know
Changing family roles.
Thanks, Dad.

Content: Changing family roles. Only 20 percent of American households consist of married couples with children. Filling the gap are family structures of all kinds, with dads stepping up to the plate and taking on a myriad of roles. When they are engaged, fathers can really make a difference. He may be classically married, single, divorced, widowed, gay, straight, adoptive, step-father, a stay-at-home dad, or the primary family provider. What is important is that he is involved. The emergence of women into the job market has forever changed how society views the traditional roles of fathers and mothers. Feminism and financial power has shifted classic parenting trends, and today approximately 60 percent of women work. Add to that, the shift in marriage, divorce, lowered birth rates, and family structures of all types, and you can see the emergence of a softening and changing of traditional parenting roles. This transition in economics, urbanization, and sexual roles has led to more opened, flexible, and undefined functions for fathers.