Often the parents are still together at the birth, a propitious moment for selling the idea of parental duty.

Full of self-importance, they take no part in parental duties.

It helps that her husband, who runs his own business, has picked up many of the parental duties.

Or they simply can't imagine someone else taking over their parental duties.

I suspect that he was shocked at my neglect of parental duties.

Nevertheless, there is still a sufficiently good chance that they are the father for them to undertake the major share of parental duties.

He'd taken over every other parental duty, a solid pillar of comfort, support, and love.

What parental duties were once assigned to men other than earning a living for the family?

But one conversation doesn't fulfill your parental duty for life.

Females invest more heavily in their offspring and all the parental duties fall to the mother.