Where’s Poppa? Dads’ Roles Changing with the Times
A Pew Research Center analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) confirms the con- tinuation of a 50-year trend leading to more than one in four fathers of children 18 or younger living apart from their children; 11 percent live separately from some of their children and 16 percent from all of them. Logically, the study further shows that fathers living with their children become more intensely involved in their lives, spending more time with them and taking part in a greater variety of activities, such as sharing meals, helping with homework and playing. Black fathers (44 percent) are more than twice as likely
as white fathers (21 percent) to live apart from their chil- dren, while Hispanic fathers (35 percent) are in the middle. Among fathers that never completed high school, 40 percent live apart from their children, compared with only 7 percent of fathers that graduated from college. Many absent fathers try to compensate by communi- cating via email, social media or phone. Almost half say they are in touch with their children several times a week, but nearly one-third communicate less than once a month. Twenty percent say they visit their children more than once a week, but 27 percent have not seen their children in the past year.
Source:
PewForum.org
Bad Air Smog Pollution Threatens National Parks
The nonprofit Sierra Club is waging a fundraising campaign to protect U.S. national parks from the effects of power plants burning dirty coal. Executive Director Michael Brune reports, “Nearly one-third of all national parks exceed pol- lution safety levels.” To date, the club has been successful in stopping construction of 160 coal-fired plants. Natural Resources Defense Council (
nrdc.org) analyses
show that not only cities, but seaside suburbs and rural ar- eas as well, are reporting health-threatening “bad air days” during the summer due to smog pollution. Some 250 communities and parks in nearly 40 states,
led by California, routinely experience one or more “code orange” dangerous air days, deemed unsafe for children, older adults and those with breathing problems to be out- side. More than 2,000 air quality alerts occurred nationwide in the first seven months of 2011, with many areas having long periods of days marred by elevated smog levels. The push for cleaner air comes amid ongoing Environmen-
tal Protection Agency delays in approving updated air pollu- tion standards, which the council notes could annually save thousands of American lives and eliminate tens of thousands of asthma attacks.
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