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Why fathers are absent from children's social coordination

My son's friends' dads never organize playdates or birthday parties and I am the only father in the group chat with twelve mothers.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social coordination of children's lives remains gendered, limiting fathers' integration into parenting communities.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gender and parenting — who does what and why?”

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