Here's some encouraging news!If you think that dads get a bad rap in movies and television - you're right! Fathers are pictured as lame at best by the media and Hollywood - but that's not true in real life!
In a recent Rassmussen Report, 72% of non-married adults and adults without children agreed with this statement:
"The most important role a man can fulfill today is being a father!"
Is that cool or what! In short, three-out-of-four American adults feel that being a dad is a man's greatest calling!
To further that point, A father's influence upon a child's academic success later in life is felt the most when he's involved from the very beginning, according to a new study in the Journal of Educational Psychology.
Brent McBride, a professor of human development at University of Illinois says that if fathers establish early on that they're going to actively engage in the parenting process they're much more likely to continue that engagement (often with positive results) as they grow older.
"We need to help fathers realize that what they do is really important. If we wait and only get fathers involved when kids are having problems in school, that's too late."
"We need to look at the bigger picture, because these analysis all point to the same conclusion: that men and women each contribute uniquely to child outcomes," he said.
That's why it's so important that we help men discover what fatherhood really means and give them a model toward healthy and positive relationships with their child."
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