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Wired To Be A Dad: Recent Science Fuels A New View Of Fatherhood [WBUR.org]

 

Charles Clayton Daniels Jr. was a "love child," he says, and his father dropped by randomly when he was a little boy.

“Man, it was some of the happiest moments of my life,” he recalls. “I would literally wait by the door and when I saw his blue pickup truck arrive, I would be so happy I’d try to hug him before he came into the house.”

But those drop-ins became less and less frequent. And when Charles Jr. was 10, his father stopped coming.

Flash forward a decade. Daniels is in college -- outwardly successful, a varsity footballer aiming toward a Ph.D. in political science — but a very unhappy young man.



[For more of this story, written by Richard Knox, go to http://www.wbur.org/commonheal...7/fatherhood-science]

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