The study also found that children whose fathers came from a high socialeconomic status were more likely to make a bigger difference to achild's development.
Dr Daniel Nettle, who led the research, said, 'It is not surprising thatfathers who may have more skills themselves have a greater impact interms of passing them on, but these results are still veryinteresting.'
The study, published in next month's Journal of Evolution and HumanBehaviour, examined why some fathers are more involved than others andthe effect this has on children later on in life.
The researchers analysed data from the National Child Development study(NCDS), a long-term study that followed 18,000 British born children in1958 through to adulthood.
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