“…Indeed, fathers with lower T showed more nurturing behavior towards their 1-year-olds (Kuo et al, 2016), and reported greater involvement in direct (e.g., bathing) and indirect (e.g., washing infant's clothes) childcare (Kuo et al, 2018). Also, fathers' engagement in childcare, attachment to the child, and cuddling appeared more pronounced the greater the T diurnal decline (Ahnert et al, 2021). In contrast, fathers' higher T was associated with increased child abuse risk, less observed positive parenting, and more observed negative parenting towards their 18-month-olds (Rodriguez et al, 2020).…”