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Letter: Editor's pick: The keys to fatherhood are researched at last (3)

Published 18 April 2018

From Ernie Dewing,Kingston, Ontario, Canada

You report that the influence of the father on a child increases when she or he is around 24 months old. In my experience, this is initiated by the child: “Daddy do it” for almost everything. My late wife Mollie and I figured that this was nature’s way of freeing her up to have the next one.

Issue no. 3174 published 21 April 2018

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