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Distant dads want more involvement with kids

Many fathers who have children who live all or part of their time with their mother would like to be more involved in their children’s lives, according to new research released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.

Institute Researcher, Dr Jennifer Baxter, said the study showed that of fathers who have some contact with their child who lives all or part of their time with the child’s mother, 47% would like to be a lot more involved with this child. Another 28% would like to be a little more involved.

“These fathers say that what’s stopping them from being more involved are factors like job demands, the child’s other parent, or living too far away,” Dr Baxter said.

“In these same families, mothers also very often say they would like the father to be more involved in the child’s life, although they were more likely to say fathers’ level of involvement was about right.”

Dr Baxter said it was important to recognise and understand the role of fathers who have a child living all or part of the time with the child’s mothers.

“This is especially so given that 10% of the youngest children in the study aged around one year old had parents who lived apart. This doubled to 21% when children were aged eight to nine,” she said.

“Many of the youngest children had never lived with their father, while as children grew they were increasingly likely to have lived with their father for some time.”

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