Fathers, as important caregivers for their children, and men doing substantial tasks in the household more generally, are a rare phenomenon. As D. Morgan states: … most of the evidence points to very slow changes in the direction of men’s participation … Most of the findings are, therefore, relatively pessimistic although perhaps we should begin to look more closely at those men who are attempting to take on greater responsibilities within the home. (Morgan, 1992: 136) Precisely this argument was the motivation to undertake the present study. There are a number of studies on ‘caring fathers’ available now from several countries: examples inlcude the United States (Radin, 1982; Pruett, 1983), Sweden (Lamb et al., 1982a), Australia (Russell, 1987) and Israel (Sagi, 1982). In the literature a number of possible determinants of care work by men have been pointed out. Both the views of men and women and their present social context appear to be important. In addition, there has been much debate about the family backgrounds of caring fathers. One of the questions is whether they are imitating their own inspiring father, or compensating for his lack of involvement. Two determinants of a father’s functioning as a major caregiver in intact families seem to emerge: (a) the parents’ perceptions of the fathering they had experienced as children, and (b) financial-employment factors; particularly fathers’ problems in obtaining jobs, mothers’ economic activity and maternal career aspirations (Radin, 1994: 44).
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