This role is important whether Dad is the sole Breadwinner or a partner in this role. Equally important are the other three roles. The Role of Moral Teacher Dad as moral teacher. Teachers love the questions. Questions tell the teacher that the lights are on and somebody is home.
Fathers teach moral behavior by the way they behave in the world.
When they behave as honest men, their children learn honesty. When they model courage their children learn to be courageous. When they use the language of virtues, ethics and morals along with their behavior, their children will learn these traits. Speak up Dad, someone thinks that Mom can do this teaching just as well without you. When parents talk about the thought process they use as they do the things they do, as they are doing them, the children around them learn to think like their parents.