Volved?

What exactly is a volved? More and more fathers are volunteering or being asked to be in one. And it seems to be working out. But can anyone pinpoint the definition when the men and the situations seem so wide ranging?

There are the dads who have just taken part in the annual fathers' walks around the country as dads strolled with the kinder on the first day of school. There are pops on patrol in schools, volunteers who for a few days each school year serve as peacekeepers and and role models. And there are homosexual men who are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars and jumping through all sorts of hoops to become fathers.

Everyone seems pretty happy in each of the reports — there is even a science of involvement — so whatever the volved is, it must be a pretty good and complex place to be in.