He may have been temporarily press-ganged into cohabiting with this little creature, but he'll be damned if he's going to leave a wild animal on its own in his house.
Some of these kids are still growing up in households with two parents, though – 58% of unmarried births were to cohabiting couples, or couples who live together without being married.
It's a tool that empowers the child to build his or her own world, and then to inhabit that world through play and to invite her friends to join her in cohabiting and cocreating that world.