Government Cash Handouts Won't Strengthen Families

xNOM · 2016-09-08T10:54:03+00:00

Fathers are especially important. Studies show that when fathers are very involved in parenting, their kids tend to enjoy healthier social and cognitive development. Psychologists have found a number of mechanisms by which dads’ attention helps kids, meaning that the pattern probably isn’t just a coincidence.

Writing in Atlantic magazine, family researcher W. Bradford Wilcox offers yet more evidence on the importance of fathers, and concludes:

The story told by this data, then, suggests that…great, and even good-enough dads, appear to make a real difference in their children's lives.

And it’s here that mandated parental leave can have the biggest effect. Researchers Ann Bartel, Maya Rossin-Slater, Christopher Ruhm, Jenna Stearns, and Jane Waldfogel find convincing evidence that mandated leave has large effects on fathers’ leave-taking (though it also affects mothers to some degree). And Cornell doctoral candidate Ankita Patnaik has found that father-only leave programs have even larger results, causing dads to spend much more time with the kids.

Link to Patnaik's paper:

Reserving Time for Daddy: The Short and Long-Run Consequences of Fathers' Quotas

BDMR_lurker · 2016-09-08T12:21:50+00:00

Bloomberg discovers that:

men are more than financial providers for their kids (role unsure for their wives)
throwing money at a problem doesn't make it go away.

Case in point: feminists. Keep throwing money at them, they keep coming back for more.

Title	Government Cash Handouts Won't Strengthen Families
Author	xNOM
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Date	September 8, 2016 10:53 AM UTC (9 years ago)
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