Specifically, loving your children and nurturing are not female traits, but human. That men do not express themselves the same way as women should never be taken as lack of feeling, commitment, or love. One of America's leading researchers who has a website is Richard Warshak, Ph.D. , which provides numerous supporting papers. Fathers are as excited as mothers over their newborns, and bond to them at the same time and pace. Fathers hold and rock more than mothers, and equal mothers in talking, kissing and imitating.
Fathers are as sensitive as mothers to their baby's signals, and as competent as caregivers.
Even male college students are as sensitive as women to infant crying patterns. This is all the more remarkable given that most men are typically raised with an understanding that they are destined through some natural law to be ineffective nurturers. . . . The research on the subject, some of it now decades old, says this assumption is just not so . And it says it over and over again, in data from many different discipliners. Pruett, Nurturing Fathe r, p 30.