Title: The Father Effect: Positive Effects of Involved Dads | Family Life
Headings: The Father Effect: Positive Effects of Involved Dads
The Father Effect: Positive Effects of Involved Dads
Fatherhood in Transition
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Pathways to Family Wellness magazine, Issue #34.
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Content: The Father Effect: Positive Effects of Involved Dads | Family Life
Jun
01
The Father Effect: Positive Effects of Involved Dads
Author // Michelle Higgins
Labels: Family Life , Author Michelle Higgins , Issue #34
Forty years ago it was a novelty for a father to be present at the birth of his own child. Today we would be shocked if, instead of talking his partner through each painful contraction, Dad was downing a beer at the pub or nervously pacing up and down the hospital corridor. Fatherhood in Transition
Feminist academic, author and father, Hugo Schwyzer, sees a real change in the way that the current generation of fathers are approaching their parenting role: “ Many of them see fathering as a genuine vocation. They don’t just pay lip service to putting family first. They do it.” While the shift towards shared parenting is real, a recent study found “seventy-five percent of men worry that their jobs prevent them from having the time to be the kind of dads they want to be.”