Thursday, February 09, 2006

Missing Dad

The Washington Post yesterday flagged an interesting study that came out last year, following up on some findings from 1992. Seems that in 1992, a University of South Florida researcher, Vicky Phares, found that a whopping 1 percent of child and adolescent psychology journal articles focused solely on fathers. (48 percent were solely about mothers.)

So Phares has has gone back and looked at the stats last decade or so. Despite the sea change we've seen in media and policy interest in involved fathers, despite the growing number of at-home dads, despite the evidence that men are more involved at home than ever before, "there continues to be a dearth of research on fathers and developmental psychopathology," according to Phares. We're up to 2 percent of all studies, compared with 45 percent for mothers. Disappointing.

BusinessWeek has launched a a new blog and put up an interesting post on the dearth of working father blogs. Though they were kind enough to mention this site, off-hand, the post raised an interesting question: are there any work-life-balance-focused blogs by working fathers? Send along suggestions in the comments section below.

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