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Article: STAY-AT-HOME DADS, MOMS DIFFER ON ROLES MEN PUT LESS EMPHASIS ON CAREER PROGRESS.(News/National/International)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- August 18, 1997
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Byline: Reuter
CHICAGO -- Fathers who stay at home with their children are less concerned with career progress, but more worried about how they would return to the work force than mothers who stay at home, U.S. researchers said Saturday.
Drs. Robert Frank of Loyola University and Michael Helford of DePaul University, who surveyed a group of primary care-giving fathers and mothers in 1994 and 1996, said they had not researched why so-called ``stay-at-home dads'' were less worried about career development than stay-at-home moms.
``We don't know why,'' Helford told reporters at the American Psychology Association's annual convention here.
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