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Matthew Alemu, Special Advisor, Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan; Northeastern University

MYSTERIOUS: What we misunderstand about absent fathers - You Need To See This

Dads aren't always in the picture. Motortion/iStock via Getty Images

“What do dads do on Tuesdays?”

This wasn’t a rhetorical question when I posed it to my wife as our daughter’s birth approached. Before my daughter was born, I had seen my father just once in the past 27 years. That’s over 1,400 Tuesdays. In fact, as a kid I hardly saw fathering any day of the week, save for on TV sitcoms; absent dads were prevalent within my family and among my peers.

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