A report, What Good are Dads?, by academics at Lancaster University, looks at the impact of fatherhood spanning 20 years. It found that fathers particularly helped in preparing children for the outside world and in developing social skills.
The report, published by four groups, Fathers Direct, the National Family and Parenting Institute, Working with Men and Newpin Fathers Support Centre, said, 'In families where fathers offer kindness, care and warmth during the primary school years, their children are likely to do well at secondary school. The involvement of the father with the child at the age of seven and 11 has been shown to predict the number of national examination passes at age 16.'
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