The aim of the study was to find out whether or not the education, job and working demands of the fathers reflect themselves on their relationship to child and on their common activities. This research has been made in the frame of ELSPAC project. ELSPAC (European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood) is held under the protection of WHO in several European countries. Set is created by children born within the years 1991 and 1992 with permanent habitation in Brno (Czech Republic). Authors had at our disposal information about common activities of 3034 five years old children and their fathers. The connection between both the extent and types of common activities of fathers and children and the level of gained education of father was proved. The university educated fathers proved themselves in average as more caring, they especially read more to their children. In many weekend activities, the extent of time spent with their children was comparable with that of fathers with high school education, whose working time was shortest in average (moreover they don’t work at the weekends and in the nights). Authors can therefore suppose that fathers with university education are trying - especially during the working days - to compensate their working load. The fathers with basic education were relatively the most passive in common activities with their children (except for the preparation of food). The relation between common activities and father’s employment, extent of his working load, physical demands of his work, specialisation, work in the night and at the weekends etc. was also found.

        Key words: father, child, common activities, the father’s care, the father’s raising