Unfortunately Science News only gives you the article's abstract and not the whole article so this info may have been accidentally taken out of context.
While I can agree that support by two parents or caregivers is more beneficial than one because it reinforces the objective of the one parent or caregiver, I don't believe that other adult has to be the father in a parenting situation in order to benefit the child's learning progress. That's like saying children raised without a father, even if the child is in a household with two adult caregivers, diminishes the child's success at school! Which is yet another implied belief that a woman can't succeed without a man. I'll bet, for example, that two women or a mother and older sibling could be just as effective.
(Oh boy, another progressive feminist making a mountain out of a molehill) But then again, something to consider, so I'm just sayin'!
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