Fathers in the U.S. tend to be better educated than men without children, and relatively few men have children over age 40. These are some of the conclusions in a report released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau, just in time for Father's Day.
The data in the report came from 2014, when the bureau for the first time asked both men and women about their fertility histories. The goal of the report was to shed greater light on men's fertility, a topic about which less is known than that of women's fertility, according to the Census Bureau.
"In recent decades, there has been growing public and academic interest in fathers and fatherhood given the importance of dad in children's lives," the report said. It found more than 60% of the 121 million adult men in the U.S. were fathers. About three-quarters of fathers were married. Almost 13% of dads were divorced and 8% had never been married.