Fatherhood

POPS CULTURE: A National heap of Dads Attitudes on Fathering
TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Introduction
A Profile Of The Survey Respondents 2 4

The Respondents Attitudes About Fatherhood and Themselves as Fathers
The Replacability of Fathers How Marriage Affects Fathering Attitudinal Support for Govern manpowert Help to Fathers Belief in a Father-Absence Crisis Other Attitudes and Perceptions

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Respondents Perceptions Of Obstacles To Good Fathering The Respondents Performance As Fathers Sources To maintenance Fathering Conclusions Endnotes Technical Appendix

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Fathering Attitudes Survey



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
telephone survey of 701 American men selected to be representative of American fathers age 18 and older with at least one biological or adopted child (not a stepchild) under the age of 18 yielded the following findings:

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4 A summary index of the conditions that the 4.
respondents sensed to be obstacles to good fathering revealed substantial differences among the different kinds of fathers.



Among those who perceived the superior obstacles were those not espouse to the mothers of their focal child (the child selected for especial(a) attention by the survey), those who did not live with that child, those who had one or more stepchildren, and older fathers in low-income households. 5. 5 When the respondents were asked which of

Ninety-nine percentage of the fathers agreed that being a father was a genuinely important part of who they are...

1.  Ninety-one percent of the respondents

agreed that in that respect is a father-absence crisis in the country, but strong agreement wide-ranging considerably among the different kinds of respondents, being relatively low among the truly young, the less religious, and those in high-income households.

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