Because We're Dads Resources

In an excerpt from a speech about his new book The Shepherd’s Hut, the author says it is men who need to step up and liberate boys from the race, the game, the fight

In this article. the authors analyze how four different groups of Swedish men—Christian men, psychotherapists, a male network, and immigrant men—relate to and discuss new gender ideals, the modern father, and fathers as important caretakers. The results from the study point toward the influences of factors such as age, social background, and religion. We also see that the ideology of gender equality has a strong general influence on men’s ways of relating to and phrasing these issues.

This article discusses the effects of fathers as caregivers in raising children who value emotional intelligence, gender equality, and healthy competition.

Although fathers play a key role in helping their children develop ideas about gender relations and close relationships, they have been largely overlooked as a resource to help prevent violence against women. This paper explores some of the reasons why fathers have not been successfully engaged in violence prevention. Engaging fathers to promote wider definitions of masculinity for themselves and their children is presented as a major mechanism by which fathers could help prevent violence against women. The information-motivation behavior model of change, developed for preventing high-risk sexual behavior, is applied to the area to provide structure for understanding previous and current attempts to engage fathers. Examples of innovative programs are used to highlight the application
of this model.

While men’s engagement in early childhood development is gaining policy momentum, operationalization of these objectives will require consideration of the various barriers and obstacles that exist to men’s engagement in the care and development of young children, in different contexts.
Promundo works to promote gender equality and create a world free from violence by engaging men and boys in partnership with women and girls, and individuals of all gender identities.

HALF the EQUATION, Why fathers are just as important as mothers in preventing domestic violence in the next generation
by: Lana Wells, Merrill Cooper, Elizabeth Dozois, and Lynne Koziey

This issue brief is a summary of four reports completed by Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence: Engaging Men and Boys in Domestic Violence Prevention: Opportunities and Promising Approaches; Working with Men and Boys to Prevent Domestic Violence in Alberta: A Provincial Scan; Promoting Positive Father Involvement: A Strategy to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence in the Next Generation; and Building a Provincial Positive Fatherhood Involvement Strategy: Results from the Nov 21, 2013 Consultation in Red Deer, Alberta.

MenCare is a global fatherhood campaign active in more than 50 countries on five continents, coordinated by Promundo and Sonke Gender Justice. Our mission is to promote men’s involvement as equitable, nonviolent fathers and caregivers in order to achieve family well-being, gender equality, and better health for mothers, fathers, and children. It aims for men to be allies in supporting women’s social and economic equality, in part by taking on more responsibility for childcare and domestic work. They believe that true equality will only be reached when men are taking on 50 percent of the world’s child care and domestic work.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have joined White Ribbon to help end gender-based violence. Together, we are asking men and boys to commit to being Men of Quality. Men of Quality always stand up for gender equality. They lead by example; challenging racism, homophobia, transphobia and sexism. Men of Quality set a good example for young men. They encourage men to support gender equality at home and in the community and they teach their children about healthy relationships and consent. Men of Quality are allies not only to the women they love, but to all women.