Good dads come in a variety pack that includes stepdads, older dads, younger dads, single dads and noncustodial dads, among others. Fatherhood is not a static calling, since life veers in lots of directions.
SALT LAKE CITY — When he was a young father of four, Dr. Brett Parkinson remembers being something of an absent dad. He was busy in medical school, then working through internship and residency on his way to becoming a breast cancer expert. His wife, Kelly, also worked. But she was a very hands-on mom to Clifford, Gretta, George and Millie.
Research details the benefits children get from engaged, caring fathers — the kind of dad Brigham Young University sociology professor Kevin Shaferusing words like "warm" and "affectionate" and dedicated to spending time with their kids. He said good dads support children emotionally and discipline appropriately.
While a lot has been written about how kids benefit from having good dads, those dads don't require science to tell you that they've benefitted from having kids. "Fatherhood gave me a sense of purpose," says Scott Thompson, a 61-year-old trial consultant and software designer in Riverside, California. "I was pretty much a crazy kid."
The kids blossomed from having both parents involved, he said. It just took time for the adults' feelings to settle. Russell Stevenson with his wife and stepchildren in New York at Christmastime 2022. Front, from left, stepson Tyler Tesch and his wife Mariama and stepdaughter Katy Olsen. Middle, Stepdaughter Sydney Mecham and stepson Levi Olsen. Back: Stepson-in-law Parker Mecham, and Sherilyn and Russell Stevenson.
Because the kids were older when the Stevensons wed, the "in-the-weeds" parenting is done. So he sees his role as being "a source of love and support and facilitation of positive experiences to the maximum degree," Stevenson says.
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