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Paternal childcare participation
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What experts have said about Paternal childcare participation
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Couples consistently overestimate fathers’ eventual childcare participation before birth.
“Every single couple Expected dad would do more before birth than dad was actually doing after birth.”
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Fathers provide distinctive and valuable benefits to children, rather than merely substituting for mothers.
“dads are cool and being a dad and the way dads are with their kids, a bit different to moms, on average, in many ways. Amazing.”
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