Fatherless children are more likely to perform poorly in school, more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems, to be violent and to have illegitimate children themselves. The institute is restructuring home visitation programs to include fathers . It will provide training on involving fathers, male communication styles, father engagement activities and father-child developmental activities. It is developing an interactive website to provide technical support to family support and healthy start programs that want to learn more about involving fathers. Carnegie Foundation Report delineates risk factors that impede the healthy development of children under the age of three .
Fathers are increasingly absent from the home.
The number of children under six increased by less than 10 percent between 1971 and 1991. In the same period the number of poor children under six increased by more than 60 percent. With Their Parents Pressure on both parents to work means they have less time with their young children . More than half of mothers of infants now work outside the home . More than 5 million children under the age of three are in the care of other adults while their parents work.