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Life etc: Who's the daddy?
Independent on Sunday, The, Jun 19, 2005 by Lulu Le Vay
Unsurprisingly, the greetings card market is beginning to capitalise on the trend. The traditional Father's Day card is jostling for position on the shelf with bearing messages such as, 'To My Stepdad, Happy Father's Day' and 'You're Like a Daddy to Me! Thank You For All You Do'. So, with this plethora of paternal figures to choose from " single dad, long-distance dad, adoptive dad and stepfather " which situation best fits your family? n
For more information on adoption, visit www.baaf. org.uk and www.norcap.org.uk
FATHER FACTS
l Almost 60 per cent of children do not live with both parents, and around 20 per cent of these live in single-father households (Office of National Statistics)
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l There are 155,000 stay-at-home dads in the UK (www.homedad.org.uk)
l Since the launch of the Adoption Contact Register for England and Wales in 1991, there have been 539 successful matches between adoptees and relatives (British Association for Adoption and Fostering)
l According to American research, children who live absent from their biological fathers are two or three times more likely to be poor, use drugs and experience health and behavioural problems (www.fatherhood.org)
l The same research shows that 50 per cent of children living away from their fathers never set foot in their father's home (www.fatherhood.org)
l Up to 10 per cent of the UK population do not have the biological father they think they do (www.bionews.org.uk)
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