I was assigned to read and article titled "Fatherhood in the Twenty-First Century" by Natasha J. Cabrera, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Robert H. Bradley, Sandra Hofferth, and Michael E. Lamb.
Here are some fascinating excerpts:
The 20th Century has been characterized by four important social trends that affect the development of children:
1. Women's increased labor force participation.
2. Increased absence of non residential fathers in the lives of their children.
3. Increased involvement of fathers in intact families.
4. Increased cultural diversity in the U.S.
Nothing has changed family life more in the 20th century than the dramatic increase in mothers' labor force participation.
The proportion of 2-parent families in which fathers serve as the sole bread winner has declined. One in four children live in such families today.
One in three children will spend some time in a non marital or step family before they reach the age of 18.
A father's positive parenting may be strongly associated with whether the pregnancy was intended.
The gap between involved and uninvolved fathers will continue to widen.
The ideal of co-parent represents an important shift because it obliterates a gender division of labor in domestic and bread-winning responsibilities.
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