Americans strongly believe that having a father and a mother in the home is essential to a child’s happiness, although a significant minority of the nation’s children still live at least part of their formative years without their fathers in the home.
Findings like these galvanize the “responsible fatherhood” movement to investigate ways to improve men’s relationships with the mothers of their children and their children.
“We don’t have a fatherless child to spare,” said Roland C. Warren, president of the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI), which just released its sixth edition of “Father Facts.”...