For Working Dads, Time Spent with Kids and Parenting Success Go Hand-in-Hand % offathers saying they are doing a job as a parent Among those who spend
When it comes to parenting, dads are harder on themselves than moms are, especially dads who say they don’t spend enough time with their children. Among working dads who say they spend too little time with their kids, only 49% say they are doing an excellent or good job as a parent. In contrast, among dads who say they spend the right amount of time with their kids, 81% give themselves high marks for their parenting.
For Working Dads, Time Spent with Kids  | and Parenting Success Go Hand-in-Hand  | % offathers saying they are doing a job as a parent  | Excellent/  | Only fairy  | Good  | Very good  | Poor  | Among those who spend  | time with theirchildren  | Too  | 49  | 37  | 13  | little  | Right  | 81  | 14  | amount  | Note: Based on employed fathers with children underage 18. "Don't  | know/ Refused responses notshown.  | Source Pew Research Centersurvey, Nov. 28 -Dec 12. 2012:  | n=115 working ffathers who say 'too little time, n=123 working  | fathers who say "righta mount.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 