Why do dads cut the umbilical cord?

However, fathers who cut the umbilical cord demonstrate an improvement in emotional involvement 1 month later. Conclusion: Results suggest that the umbilical cord cutting experience benefits the father's emotional involvement with the neonate, supporting the benefits of his participation and empowerment in childbirth.
Cutting the umbilical cord is a time-honored tradition historically bestowed upon new fathers. Honestly, it's all a bit patriarchal for me. After all, we know it's not always dads who do the honors. Practitioners, mothers, and birth coaches cut the cord, too. Hell, my grandma did it for my single mom. However, I am fascinated by a medical procedure that we allow laypeople to do, so I thought I'd ask dads to describe what cutting the cord is actually like.

The emotional involvement between father
and child tends to increase during the first days after childbirth and to decrease when
evaluated 1 month after birth, for fathers who did not cut the umbilical cord.
However, fathers who cut the umbilical cord demonstrate an improvement in
emotional involvement 1 month later