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Infants who are securely attached to their fathers are more sociable with strangers than their peers who are less attached to their parents.
--Source: Security of Mother-and Father-Infant Interaction involving play and holding in traditional and non traditional Swedish families, Infant Behavior and Development, 1982; The Development of Father-Infant Relationships, Lamb, M.E. et al. The Role of the Father in Child Development, 1997

White adolescents in single mother families who were involved with their non-resident fathers had lower incidence of delinquency, heavy drinking, and drug use than their peers living with a single mother with no father involvement.
--Source: The Effects of Single-Mother Families and Non-resident Fathers on Delinquency and Substance abuse in Black and White Adolescents. Thomas, Farrell, Barnes; Journal of Marriage and Family, 1996.

The more money a father makes, the more time he spends with his kids on weekends. For every $10,000 a father earns, he spends 3 minutes more with his kids doing homework, studying, reading and educational lessons on weekends.
--Source: Children’s Time with Fathers in Intact Families, Yeung, Sandberg, Davis-Kean, Hofferth University of Michigan, Journal of Marriage and Family, February 2001

Fathers who spent time alone with their kids performing routine child care at least two times a week, raised children who were the most compassionate adults.
--Source: The Family Origins of Empathic Concern: A Twenty-Six Year Longitudinal Study, Koestner, Franz,Weinberger; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1990.