Three Reasons to Celebrate Fathers

There is surprisingly little research on fathers but the research that we do have is fascinating!

Today is a special edition newsletter in honor of Father’s Day this Sunday (at least in some countries). I wanted to write this newsletter since fathers are often neglected in parenting research, as well as in the parenting world more generally. Despite fathers becoming increasingly involved in child care, many parenting research studies do not include fathers and those that do often fail to analyze mothers and fathers separately so our knowledge about the unique role of fathers is very limited. One review study which included over 726 articles on child psychology found that 50.7% of these…

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