ABSTRACT
Ifaluk fathers are doting fathers. Almost no one who has lived on Ifaluk and written about it has forgotten to mention that the men there love children (e.g., Burrows and Spiro 1957; Bates and Abbott 1958; Turke and Betzig 1985). Although the figures are few, and the methods are seldom the same, fathers on Ifaluk seem to spend as much or more time with their children as fathers in other traditional cultures spend with theirs (Betzig 1992a).
