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Survey: Dads Spending More Time With Kids

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Updated: 6/17/2012 2:27 pm
Times are changing when it comes to fatherhood according to one new survey. Today's dads spend a lot more time with their kids than they did 50 years ago.

Fathers today average around six-and-a-half hours of “quality time” with their kids per week, more than double what it was in 1962.

The study also found that dads today with kids between ages three and five read to them an average of six times a week.


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