Dads look to be struggling more with work-life balance than they let on, suggests a new study about the importance of fatherhood to men. “There is an image for men that if they’re into their career, then they’re not into being fathers,” says Julia McQuillan, professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a co-author of the research. “These results, however, show something quite different.”
The study surveyed about 1,000 men across the United States. All of them were either married to a woman or co-habitating with a woman. Unlike other surveys that ask men to rank the importance of different roles against each other, this survey just asked them to rate the relative importance of various parts of their lives. Which men valued fatherhood the most?
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Author:Kimberly Weisul
