Two experts ask whether dads are making their health a priority. Evidence suggests not. Pressures to provide income often hold fathers back.
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When children don't live with their fathers, educators often act as if the men don't exist, an expert on child development laments in an essay about why schools must do more to recognize dads.
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.
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.
What does it mean to be a good father to your son? Drop the traditionally masculine roles and embrace your emotions.
Developmental psychology has uncovered some lesser-known, yet important ways that fathers improve their children’s lives.
As dads blog about their lives and changing norms and issues around fatherhood and parenting, they're pushing for social changes to benefit families in Canada — one blog post at a time.
Our children can't continue to grow up in a world where only women raise them, either at home or in early care and learning.
New research has found one in five dads has experienced symptoms of depression and/or anxiety after having children.
Time often seems to fly by when you're a parent. A social psychologist explains why it actually – and fortunately – does not.
Fathers are important for children starting from the very beginning of life, but few early parenting resources are available for men. Two scholars who studied this explain their findings.
Stepfathers often enter a family unit with certain expectations about what their role should be. They're usually wrong.
Wives sometimes chide their husbands for being cold or distant toward their sons. But men express their love in subtle ways that deserve to be honored rather than belittled.
Research reveals few differences between the parenting of gay men and their straight peers. But it looks like gay fathers could be more apt to volunteer at their children's schools.
While many men want to seek treatment for 'low T,' a low level of testosterone is good when it comes to being a nurturing father. Here's why.
Like moms, more dads are sweating the work-life balance. While just 35 percent of dads reported such conflicts in 1977, today 60 percent struggle to bring up baby while bringing home the bacon.
Why human fathers are worth celebrating.
Levels of a male sex hormone known to influence aggression and a "love" hormone that promotes bonding both rise in traditional hunters headed home after the kill. What's going on?
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Lecturer in Zoology, University of Hull
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Professeure à l'Université TELUQ, Université du Québec, directrice de l'ARUC sur la gestion des âges et des temps sociaux et de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur l'économie du savoir, Université TÉLUQ
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Honorary Principal Fellow, Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne
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