This is a Dad's Brain on Parenting

There are as many types of fathers as there are people. The Khronos Chronicles
features a father who is intellectually brilliant but largely blind to his son's emotional needs, not to mention blind to the potential consequences of his brilliant invention.

Some people don't think fathers are capable of being fully emotionally present in their children's lives, at least when compared to the paradigmatic mother. That was definitely the sense I got 16 years ago when our son was a newborn; quite a few people seemed to express either doubt or wonder at Dru's and my capacity to be effective nurturers.

But now there's research to prove that moms and dads are made of the same stuff, according to an article on www.LiveScience.com by Bahar Gholipour. "Taking care of a child reshapes a dad's brain, causing it to show the same patterns of cognitive and emotional engagement that are seen in moms," she writes. This pretty much confirms what I've known viscerally as a (gay) dad, but it's nice to see it confirmed.

Click here for the full article (which had a bunch of other interesting dad-related research).