I think a lot was based on "attitudes toward fatherhood" which is kind of meaningless. People have opinions about all sorts of things but does not mean it correlates with experience. I'm sure there would be nearly a 100% attitude against child abuse too, but don't think that is what happens.

I think the number of father's living away from home and not very interactive with their children correlates to earlier days when fathers lived at home but were not very interactive with their children. Yes, more fathers are more interactive and more fathers live away from home and I think that "balances". I think father's who live with their children and are interactive now would be inclined to stay interactive if they moved away from the home and/or their children would live with them for some part of the week (joint custody/two homes). I don't think they covered that in the study? I don't think fathers living away from their children who are not interactive have "changed"; they probably weren't interactive when they "lived with" their children.