James Lankford: “Right now, [dads are] three times more likely to spend more…”

“Can I applaud a good thing that's happening in culture? With that, we're literally seeing the statistics on this. The numbers on it bear out, literally, in this generation of dads. Right now, [dads are] three times more likely to spend more time with their kids than the dads during the 1960s. It's an interesting shift that's happening. We have fewer dads out there, but the dads that are there in America are looking at their kids and saying, I want to spend more time with them.” (01:22–01:30)

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