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Traditionally, dads havebeen pressuredto pour all of their time into being “good providers” fortheir families — even though that meant lots of them missed outon being there for the special moments in their kids’ lives. The great thing about more families splitting breadwinning and parenting duties is that morefathers are finding time to hangwith their…

Chie Davis

Nov 9, 2014

If you’re interested in learning more about fathers and their role in parenting, check out this report from the CDC that talks about how different groups of fathers are involved. Pages 12-20 are super-interesting.

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