Research Finds Interaction With Father, Not Mother, Affects Child Health

Article here. Is it another anti-father article from the NYT or an actual attempt to talk up fathers? Hard to tell. My guess is the NYT is trying to ride the fence here. Excerpt:

'For much of the 20th century and beyond, social scientists attributed a range of chronic mental health problems to dysfunction between infants and their mothers, who were categorized as overbearing, rejecting, domineering or ambivalent.

But a team of researchers from Pennsylvania State University has found that at times the early parenting behavior of fathers may have a greater impact on children’s health.

For a study published recently in the journal Health Psychology, the scientists observed three-way interactions between 10-month-old infants, their fathers and their mothers, and then checked in on the families when the children were 2 and 7.'