FATHERHOOD BY THE NUMBERS

3.8 million — Fathers with children under 18 living with them, as of 2011

29 — Percentage of fathers who took parental leave in 2011 (share is 76 per cent in Quebec, which has its own parental benefits program)

21 — Percentage of male lone-parent families in Canada in 2011 (growth of single-parent families was more than twice as strong between 2006 and 2011 for men than for women: 16.2 per cent versus six

per cent)

379 — Time spent, in minutes, by men with their families on an average day in 2010, up from 345 in 2005

81 — Participation rate of men in housework and related activities in 2010, up from 77 per cent in 2005

11 — Percentage of twoparent families with a stayat-home dad, as of 2010