Wed Oct 11, 2023 – 2:32 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A British study shows that fathers’ involvement has a positive influence on their children’s school achievement regardless of the child’s sex, ethnicity, age in the school year, and household name.
Research carried out at the University of Leeds has found that fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, singing, drawing, and playing with them on a regular basis, according to the U.K. study published on September 20.
The father-focused study was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and led by Dr. Helen Norman, Research Fellow at Leeds University Business School, in collaboration with co-author Dr. Jeremy Davies, Head of Impact and Communications at the Fatherhood Institute, and co-investigators at the University of Manchester.
The longitudinal analysis in England explored the relationship between fathers’ childcare involvement and their children’s attainment at primary school.
Analyzing primary school test scores for five-, seven-, and eleven-year-olds, the researchers used a representative sample of nearly 5,000 mother-father households in England from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The MCS collected data on children born in 2000-02.
Quoted on the UK Data Service website,
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