Just as the last third of the 20th century was about creating equal opportunity for women as workers, so the first third of the 21st century will be about creating equal opportunity for men as parents. Neither goal will be achieved until both goals are achieved. Based on thirteen years of research, this book will force a re-examination of the circumstances in which a dad or a mom is best for children.
Children do better with single fathers than with single mothers.
Both boys and girls are healthier and do better psychologically and academically, as well as socially. Even characteristics such as empathy are exhibited more by children brought up by single fathers. Single fathers experience less stress juggling children and work than do single mothers. Why there is both a mothering instinct and a fathering instinct. Why they operate in different ways.