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Time with dad crucial to babies

By Laura Marcus, Nursery World, 15 March 2007

The amount of time fathers spend with their children in the early months of life is crucial for their development, according to analysis of almost 20,000 children born around the millennium. The Equal Opportunities Commission report, Parental care and employment in early childhood, uses statistics from the Millennium Cohort Survey, which surveys 30,000 parents of 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001, to examine trends among young families.

The amount of time fathers spend with their children in the early months of life is crucial for their development, according to analysis of almost 20,000 children born around the millennium. The...

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