| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on men in families. A study was conducted to examine whether fathers' availability and the couple's economic resources are differentially related to child care by fathers over time. Data from the 1988, 1991, and 1993 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation were employed. Findings indicate that increased availability of fathers is significantly associated with higher levels of fathers' participation in child care in all three years. Relative economic resources between husbands and wives help to account for care by fathers only during 1991, which was a recession year, whereas family income is important only in 1988 and 1993, which were nonrecession years.
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