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August 13, 2020

What Indonesia can do to encourage fathers to support breastfeeding

Angga Sisca Rahadian, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and Lengga Pradipta, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)

There are two things Indonesian policymakers can do to encourage fathers to get involved in the success of exclusive breastfeeding.

Dads tend to engage in more active, physical play activities with their young children. Shutterstock/pyrozhenka

September 4, 2019

Kids learn valuable life skills through rough-and-tumble play with their dads

Emily Freeman, University of Newcastle

When dads engage in active play with their kids they actually help them cope better with some of the challenges they'll face in life. And no reason why mums can't join in the fun as well.

Even working women who have partners often have to do the most work at home. Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon

August 8, 2019

Gender equality at home takes a hit when children arrive

Laurie DeRose, Georgetown University

Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?

Québec’s insurance plan which gives fathers options to take parental leave has had a major impact on fatherhood. Peter Dlhy /Unsplash

June 13, 2019

How one province got 80 per cent of fathers to take paternity leave

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Université TÉLUQ

Thanks to a provincial insurance plan, Québec fathers are spending more time with their newborns, bringing about changes in the gender division of labour within the family.

What are the rules that make a man a father? Slava Potik/Unsplash

June 17, 2020

Who’s your daddy? Don’t ask a DNA test

Nara Milanich, Barnard College

Before the advent of genetic testing, definitions of paternity were primarily social and legal. Science has destabilized these older definitions, but it has not replaced them.

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