Pew Research Study: Dads Spending Much More Time With Children: The percentage of American fathers who live apart from their children has doubled over the last half-century. But, to their credit, many of today's dads are spending more than twice as much time with their kids as they did back then.The role of mothers has changed, too, according to a Pew Research Center report that examines parents and parenting as U.S. marriage rates and traditional family households fall to historic lows.
How a father provides for his family relates to the attention he devotes to his children, the study found. College-educated men who tend to marry and get better jobs are more involved with their children than less skilled men struggling to get by.
