Abstract
The purpose of this study is to make clear the influence of occupational and family static-interactional factors on the participation of fathers in childrearing. We surveyed 1, 359 families with parents and children of fifth or sixth grade in the middle and thick city in October to November, 1989. The major findings are as follows :
(1) Fathers' occupation and home-coming time have large influence on their participation in childrearing, that is to say, public officials are higher degree of participation than private company employees or self employees. Furthermore, if fathers' home-coming time is later than 21 o'clock, they are not enough participations in childrearing which requires personal touch with children.
(2) The interactional factors of family have stronger influence on fathers' participation in childrearing than the static factors of family. Especially, in the case that children appreciate their fathers' touch with them, mothers accept fathers' participation with positive feeling and mothers always talk to fathers about their children, the degree of fathers' participation in usual and unusual childrearing becomes higher.
