Young men are being forgotten when it comes to teenage pregnancy but helping them share responsibility could have a big impact.
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Fertility, as with contraception, is seen as a woman’s issue, but the science shows this needs to change.
Moms don’t have to be designated worriers.
To prevent men from using violence in their households, violence against children needs to stop before they become adults.
Why men like David Beckham are the face of modern fatherhood.
Why the modern role of men as fathers is something we must embrace.
Efforts to get fathers more involved in raising their kids often entail changing leave provisions, but research shows that’s not helping dads get more involved in caring for their children.
Breastfeeding is one of those topics that all parents have a view on. Whether you love it or hate it, the NHS, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF all recommend breastfeeding to give babies the best…
Where there is mental illness, there’s almost invariably social disapproval and discrimination. And a report released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies today shows fathers with mental illness…
Washington father Aaron Dickson’s video in which he takes his three-year old daughter on her “first date” went viral yesterday attracting acclaim (which is great) and disgust (which is disappointing…
How confident are you that the man you call dad is really your biological father? If you believe some of the most commonly-quoted figures, you could be forgiven for not being very confident at all. But…
Since the 1970s, family life in the UK has changed dramatically. Increases in relationship breakdown, remarriage and repartnering have seen us move away from the traditional, two-parent nuclear family…
Boys whose fathers work long hours can display delinquent and aggressive behaviour, according to a longitudinal study that…
We all have different expectations about how involved dads should be during pregnancy and childbirth. In the UK, it’s generally seen as a good thing and research is now beginning to show that it matters…
Teenage girls are more likely to experience depression if their father left at an early age, researchers at the University…
As a society, we put a significant emphasis on women’s health both immediately prior to and during pregnancy – and rightly so. A woman needs to prepare her body for the arduous nine months of gestation…
The new paternity leave scheme that started on January 1 may be cheap and still have a significant impact. It offers new fathers two weeks leave at minimum wage, which is only a fraction of what new dads…
The success of House Husbands, the Australian drama featuring four hands-on dads may be a signal that today’s fathers really want more involvement in their children’s lives than did previous generations…
If we want to survey families to discover how the children are going, we usually have to ask an adult. It seems common sense to ask the “primary carer”, usually the mother, who knows the child the best…
The front page of Saturday’s edition of the Sydney Morning Herald on the weekend was dominated by a story about the actor Rachel Griffiths and her husband, artist Andrew Taylor “playing swapsies” with…
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Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Chair in Social Sciences and Health and UNESCO Chair on Masculinities and Gender Equality, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Research Associate, Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI)
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Student area of expertise unplanned pregnancy and father absence, University of the Witwatersrand
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