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If this is what society considers the roles of a father to be, then to goes a long way to explain so many of the challenges people face today.

I certainly don't see my role with my children as just a babysitter. The partnership with my wife to raise our family is a complex and rich engagement between our strengths and weaknesses to aid in our kids development, not only physically, but also mentally and emotionally among other aspects.

Survival is sort of not the point though? We want people to thrive not just live. People with male role models do better in school, less likely to commit crime, take risks, live longer and are happier.

And raise similarly successful offspring.

> Its not like a father today is doing anything super specific to child survival.

Actually, different people have different strengths.