Technical details
- Base: 400 men aged 16-25
- All interviews conducted face-to-face, and in-home
- Fieldwork dates: 5-8 March; 11-16 March; 19-22 March 1999
- 158 sampling points used for each wave throughout Great Britain
- An asterisk (*) indicates a percentage less than 0.5% but greater than zero
- Data have been weighted to reflect the national profile
Q1-4 I am now going to read out four statements and I would like you to tell me whether you agree or disagree with each? Firstly ...
| Strongly agree | Tend to agree | Neither agree nor disagree | Tend to disagree | Strongly disagree | No opinion | |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | |
| Children need to be brought up by two parents in the same home | 28 | 30 | 16 | 18 | 7 | * |
| Bringing up a child is women's work; | 2 | 5 | 8 | 38 | 47 | 0 |
| Just because I father a child does not mean I should support it financially | 2 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 58 | 1 |
| If our relationship has broken down, it's not my responsibility to support my child financially | 1 | 2 | 6 | 27 | 64 | 1 |
| Very likely |  13% |
| Fairly likely | 20% |
| Not very likely | 14% |
| Not at all likely | 12% |
| Depends/can't say | 33% |
| Not applicable | 3% |
| Refused | 1% |
| Don't know | 3% |
| Very likely |  12% |
| Fairly likely | 25% |
| Not very likely | 21% |
| Not at all likely | 18% |
| Depends/can't say | 17% |
| Not applicable | 2% |
| Refused | 2% |
| Don't know | 3% |
