strategy
Promoting paternal involvement in child rearing
Synonyms:
Expanding fathers' participation in child care Context:
Numerous studies indicate that many men do not know how to be fathers and that programmes even nominally concerned with family and child welfare provide them with little encouragement. Implementation:
Policies could include: encouraging and providing for the active participation of men in reproductive health care programmes, including family planning, pre-natal delivery and postpartum care; training of fathers to be parents by bringing them into schools and day care centres to assist; sensitizing boys to the realities and rewards of raising their children by providing them with hands on experience; including positive father imagery in information materials and in the popular media. Claim:
Building and sustaining fathers' involvement in the care and raising of children must be advocated within policies and at the individual level. Broader:
Assisting fathersAssisting unmarried fathersEnhancing basic family rolesSharing family responsibilitiesEnsuring effective child rearingEncouraging whole family participationStressing importance of partnership in families Narrower:
Taking paternity leaveOvercoming barriers to male pregnancyReducing discrimination against unmarried fathers Constrained by:
Denying paternal accessDisapproving of unmarried fathers Facilitated by:
Demonstrating child raising techniquesPromoting adolescent reproductive health awareness Problems:
Paternal negligenceOrganizations:
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre Subjects:
Society → InfantsSociety → Family
Society → Maternity, paternity
Social Activity → Participation
Communication → Promotion
Health Care → Care
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
