Monday, June 23, 2008

Mom’s behaviour key to dad’s involvement in child care


Check this out..

If you actively encourage your husband to help out with the baby, he is likely to do it according to this study...yayyy..power to the mothers :D.. I love this word "power"

Mom’s behaviour key to dad’s involvement in child care

June 16, 2008

Mothers play an important role in determining how much fathers get involved in taking care of their infants, according to new research.A study of 97 couples found that fathers were more involved in the day-to-day care of their infants when they received active encouragement from their wife or partner.In fact, this encouragement was important even after taking into account fathers’ and mothers’ views about how involved dads should be, the overall quality of the couple’s parenting relationship, and how much mothers worked outside the home.In addition, fathers’ beliefs about how involved they should be in child care did not matter when mothers were highly critical of fathers’ parenting. In other words, fathers didn’t put their beliefs into practice when faced with a particularly judgmental mother.

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