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Parenting Changes

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that was the last generation where that particular configuration was the norm (2000). Dads went to work to support their families. They meted out discipline. They most often spent weekends  with their families. Depending on geographic locations, visiting with extended families and/or friends was a frequent activity on weekends and holidays. Adler noted that the so-called Baby Boomer generation changed  the nature of parenting as well as other institutions in America (2000). At some point for reasons yet to be explained by sociologists, attitudes towards parenting changed and fathers became  more involved in their childrens rearing (Adler, 2000). This was supposed to result in better children but, as Adler also points out, the research thus far has failed to provide  any proof of this expectation (Adler, 2000). Fathers have become more active in the parenting process, some to the point that they give up lucrative careers or they even stay  home part- or full-time to rear their children (Adler, 2000). According to attachment theory, psychologists say that the child develops an attachment to dad as well as to mom in  the first months of life (Adler, 2000). Having dad "there" should have resulted in more well-balanced, constructive children but it hasnt. It does not work. Consider: since the Baby  Boomers changed the institutions of work and parenting, divorce has soared and there are more children living without a dad than ever before in American history. By 1998, 51 marriages  out of 100 ended in divorce (Fagan and Rector, 1999). Each year, more than one million children move from an intact home to one where their parents have divorced (Fagan  and Rector, 2000). As of 1999, more than 8 million children in America were living with their divorced single parent (Fagan and Rector, 2000). When the numbers of divorce and