While expectant mothers are often considered to be the universe of their future off-spring, science is teaching us that fathers may have just as an important role in a newborn baby’s life. As it turns out, a father’s habits and lifestyle choices have just as much impact on a child as mom’s decisions do. In what is termed epigenetics, scientists and researchers are honing in on the “nurture” part of the nature/nurture debate, and what they are finding is that dad and mom both contribute equally to the health, happiness, interests, and nutritional choices of their child.Read the entire article here: Why Fathers Really Matter.