Although not as strong as it once was, the Promise Keepers movement has had a significant positive impact on men. I don't think it's an accident that it focused on (1) prayer/ Scripture, (2) becoming better husbands and fathers, and (3) growing in fellowship with other Godly men.
To steal a thought from Therese Z., men who love God are studly. Men who love God together with other men are even better.
Peace, Dale.
Interesting. I wonder how much of being better fathers has to do with "intentionality" rather than "conservativism." On an anecdotal note, I saw many counter-cultural buddies in the 80's heavily involved with child-rearing. The liberals discovered it first, but perhaps the evangelicals have exemplified the servant of the parable who actually went out and did as they were asked. It would be interesting to cast this study in light of the UWash study that found lower levels of religiosity in men across the board in all world faiths.
Evangelicals are good fathers because they believe in patriarchy -- and so do their wives. This is one of those areas where Catholics need to learn from the Evangelical brethren.
Todd,
I guess that if fatherhood is more intentionality than conservatism (which should be obvious), then the question would be why conservative Protestant men have a higher level of intentionality.
Todd--I think I'm with Joe on that one.
What impels the intentionality is really the issue. I think the biblical fidelity of evangelicals has to be at the core, and I think the "conservative" tag is often a bad fit.
I also have a sneaking suspicion (and that's all it is) that evangelicals buck that trend of male non-participation, too.
Born and bred evangelical here -- and my experience is that evangelicals do buck the trend of male non-participation.
I could go on at length, but let's just say that both my dad and stepdad were in church every Sunday. Not to mention reasonably frequent at either the Sunday night or Wednesday midweek service. Oh, and as for sissified clergy? My pastor in high school moonlighted as an assistant football coach. 
The expectation was that worshipping Jesus was for men and women, mothers and fathers. And any church (Catholics and mainline Protestants, as far as we could tell) which had a "religion is for the wimminfolk and kids" attitude received pity, if not scorn.
And I think I've mentioned before that my wife is shocked at the number of actual Catholic men that I seem to know (actual Catholics, not "i-was-raised-Catholic-let-me-show-you-the-nun-
scars-and-glitter-paste" types).
peace,
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