The interim report of a two-year project by Working Families and Lancaster University Management School, Work-life balance: working for fathers?, says that fathers are under increasing pressure to combine work with being more directly involved with their children, and the desire among fathers to spend more time looking after their children is widespread.
Twenty-one per cent of fathers look after pre-school children at some point during the week and 43 per cent of fathers provide childcare before or after school.
The project also measured the stress felt by fathers, finding that those with one child were more stressed than those who have two children. Fathers who did more housework were less stressed and those whose partners worked full-time had a better sense of well-being than those whose partners worked part-time.
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