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The Berger team found that stepfathers/social dads and married biological fathers played with the focal children at about the same levels of time and effort.
They also found that mothers trusted stepfathers/social dads and married biological fathers, with respect to caring for their children when they were away from the children, at about the same levels.
However, the study found the largest discrepancy between stepfathers/social dads and married biological fathers in the degree of cooperation with the mothers. The stepfathers and social dads were much more cooperative with the children’s mothers than were the biological fathers.
The authors stated within the paper that they theorized men who married women with children had a greater interest in parenting than biological fathers.
They concluded that there was “… a stronger link between marriage and higher quality parenting practices among social fathers than among biological fathers.”
The conclusions of the Berger study is expected to be controversial because the widely held belief among social workers and family experts contend that biological fathers are better fathers than stepfathers because they are raising their own children.
Some experts are already cautioning that the statement saying stepfathers and social dads are slightly better than stepfathers in raising children in “fragile” environments is an invalid generalization.
No doubt, further research is needed to verify the conclusions to this study.
David Bass
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