CNN.com - Study: College grads are fussier dads - May 31, 2006: "Men who have earned a college degree plan fewer children but tend to fuss over them more than guys with less schooling.
That's the word from the government's first look at fathers and parenting, the latest version of a study that has always concentrated on women in the past.
Men who have graduated from college expect to father two children while those without a high school diploma plan on nearly three -- 2.9 -- according to the report released Wednesday by the National Center on Health Statistics."
Other findings included:
# Some 25 percent of black fathers had their first child before they were 20 years old, compared with 19 percent of Hispanic men and 11 percent of whites.
# Among unmarried white men, 19 percent have had a child, compared with one-third of black and Hispanic men.
# At the time of their first child, 37 percent of black fathers were married, compared with 52 percent of Hispanics and 77 percent of whites.
# Unmarried Hispanic and black fathers were more likely to be living with the mother of their child when their first child was born -- 32 and 24 percent, respectively -- compared with white fathers, 12 percent.
