Interaction between a father and the children he is parenting.

The traditional roles of the father in our society have been that of the bread-winner and the disciplinarian. As more and more mothers work outside the home, the fathers' role in the family is changing. Parents today expect to share more child-rearing responsibilities. The single father and the house-husband are not rare these days, and society seems less ready to stigmatize men who care for their young children. One sign of this attitude change is the fact that fathers are now routinely allowed—even encouraged—to come into labor and delivery rooms to watch the births of their children, and are allowed to hold their children in their first moments after birth. This is a huge departure from the image of the expectant father nervously pacing the waiting room, then peering at the newborn infant through...