The findings were welcomed by parenting groups.
Deloitte and other leading companies support dads with informational resources and parenting groups.
"There's a growth in black and ethnic minority parenting groups, but there isn't a sufficient perception that families' needs may be different.
Turning to online parenting groups for Russians with young children and connecting through friends of friends of friends, responses finally began to trickle in.
To find her subjects — Asselin photographed more than 20 baby-sitters and the children they watch — she placed advertisements online and with parenting groups.
The requests reveal a broad swathe of society involved in passing on scientific information: health workers, librarians, societies, public-health officials, policy-makers, technology companies, safety bodies, popular writers, educators, parenting groups and local government.
By doing this regularly, practitioners say, you begin to cultivate an attentive, nonjudgmental mind-set — mindfulness — that can be applied to activities beyond meditation; hence the proliferation of the word in everything from parenting groups to Weight Watchers meetings.
For example, when low-income fathers are provided an opportunity to participate in parenting groups with others, they acquire the skills to be involved fathers and better partners, and their children benefit.
I have that much experience as a father, but, no matter how many classes or seminars I take, books I read, parenting groups I participate in, I still feel like a rookie.
Senior admirably avoids chronicling the privileged New York parents in her immediate vicinity and instead introduces us to middle-class families she found through parenting groups in Minnesota and parent-teacher organizations in Texas.
