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title: "Big Changes in Stay-at-Home Fatherhood"
description: "Not only has the number of stay-at-home fathers nearly doubled in recent years, but fathers who are home with their children are a larger share of stay-at-home parents. This links to a FactTank posting about the numbers and characteristics of stay-at-home fathers, and how they differ from stay-at-home mothers."
date: "2014-06-05"
authors:
  - name: "D’Vera Cohn"
    job_title: "Former Senior Writer/Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/dvera-cohn/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/06/05/big-changes-in-stay-at-home-fatherhood/"
---

# Big Changes in Stay-at-Home Fatherhood

The number of U.S. fathers who are home with their children has risen markedly in recent years, up to 2 million in 2012, and they also have grown as a share of stay-at-home parents. Fathers' reasons for being home, as well as some of their characteristics, differ from those of stay-at-home mothers. [Read more at FactTank.](https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2014/06/05/growing-number-of-dads-home-with-the-kids/)