I'm sorry, this isn't the most enjoyable subject material, but if you're a mum or
dad with school aged children, you may already be familiar with this unsavoury situation.
a review of 20 years of research on fatherhood, by Charlie Lewis, Professor of Psychology at Lancaster University and published in June 2001 by Fathers Direct, NFPI and other parenting charities: · Involvement of
dads with children aged 7 - 11 predicts success in exams at 16 · Where
dads are involved before the
age of 11,
children are less likely to have a criminal record by the
age of 21 · Pre-schoolers who spend more time playing
with their
dads are often more sociable when they enter nursery
school · Nine out of ten
dads attend the birth