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Until fairly recently, most of the scientific research about parental influence on children focused on mothers and left out dads. But recent studies have shown that fathers have an important role in the development of children — from conception into adulthood. Award-winning science writer Paul Raeburn highlights all this new research in his book Do Fathers Matter? What Science Is Telling Us About the Parent We Overlooked<\/a><\/em>. In this podcast, I talk to Paul about some of the research he highlights in his book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until fairly recently, most of the scientific research about parental influence on children focused on mothers and left out dads. But recent studies have shown that fathers have an important role in the development of children — from conception into adulthood. Award-winning science writer Paul Raeburn highlights all this new research in his book Do Fathers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,156,42379],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatherhood","category-podcast","category-social"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/119-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/119-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/119-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/119-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/119-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"\nPodcast: Do Fathers Matter? | The Art of Manliness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Most of the scientific research about parental influence on children usually left out dads. 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