Fatherhood

Father involvement provides numerous benefits for child well-being, starting prenatally and lasting into adulthood. Engaged fathers enhance cognitive skills, reading proficiency, and self-esteem, while reducing risks of poor birth outcomes, poverty, food insecurity, and behavioral issues.

When fathers are involved with their children, the children’s mothers’ benefit in many ways. Including more leisure time, healthier births, lower rates of postpartum stress and depression (and of stress and depression generally), and a higher-quality co-parenting relationship.4W