Darby Saxbe

If she's breastfeeding, the baby gets more comfortable with her early on.

Moms also have this head start a pregnancy to kind of develop that bond.

And moms may even just have more time off from work.

And so moms themselves may want to be the primary parent.

It doesn't necessarily mean that there's something wrong.

But we did find that the more dads were doing, the happier they actually were with parenting.

So dads who were participating more had lower parenting stress and moms had better relationship satisfaction.

Yeah.

And I think a lot of men increasingly, because you flagged a really important thing when you said you're doing so much more than your dad did or than your grandfather did.

Contemporary men are doing way more hands-on child care than men of previous generations in the U.S.

And I think men themselves, if you say, what are the most meaningful things you do in your life?

Being a parent is up there and it's a similar number of men will rate that as their highest priority as women.

So it's also like, not only do men want to be involved, it's like there's a value.

A pride, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot of the time.

Yeah, they're smart.

They know who to ask.

Yeah, my kids know who to ask for takeout.