Don't know, but you can certainly find historical descriptions of warm and loving fathers (as we would recognize them today) from the 1900's. My grandmother des

Don't know, but you can certainly find historical descriptions of warm and loving fathers (as we would recognize them today) from the 1900's. My grandmother described her relationship with her father (born during that era) that way. I wonder if it's possible, at this distance, to quantify the emotional quality of family relationships from the early 20th century. Probably requires scouring a lot of oral history.