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“Since 1965,” writes the author of a new book, “partnered fathers nearly quadrupled the time that they spend with kids.” Many dads today are trying to be different, evolved, and “better”; they see themselves as part of an active effort to modernize fatherhood. And as fathers spend more time with their kids, they experience changes in their brains and hormones—roughly the same changes that mothers do. Their testosterone levels decrease. Their prolactin rises. Their brains shrink and streamline. Does this make today’s fathers better dads? “That’s a surprisingly thorny question,” Joshua Rothman writes. “Maybe a good father is just a good parent who happens to be a man.” He considers “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives,” by Darby Saxbe: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Aqt4Sb

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