The recently released 2015 General Household Survey revealed a mixed bag for our children. There was a commendable increase in the number of five-year-olds enrolled in school, but at home the picture isn’t so rosy. According to the survey, 63% of fathers do not live at home with their biological children. This number has remained more or less the same for the past decade. The fact is that there is a massive gap in father’s presence in children’s lives. …
On Father’s Day, we’re celebrating fathers who stand for equality and who know the value of care. One year ago, MenCare launched the first State of the World’s Fathers report, a landmark analysis of data that revealed what fatherhood really looks like around the world. It highlighted the crucial role fathers can play in advancing …
A new study focuses on the effectiveness of MenCare+ programming for parents in promoting gender equality in Cape Town, South Africa. It examines the ways in which attitudes toward gender, household divisions of caregiving, and fathers’ involvement among participants change before and after joining MenCare+ fathers’ groups. …
Today, we’re launching the country’s first State of America’s Fathers report – a landmark analysis of fatherhood. Fathers in the United States are more involved than ever before, but gender equality, child development, and the wealth of the nation rely on advancing this movement, finds the first ever State of America’s Fathers report. There is a …
It is a Monday morning and there is a huge buzz of excitement in the hall of the American School in Kosovo. As balloons are blown up and posters straightened and microphones tested, more and more people, mostly under 30, crowd in. …
“I always win when I put my family first.” Ahead of the first-ever State of America’s Fathers report release, this is what America’s dads are saying about fatherhood. In “America’s Dads,” Equimundo and MenCare’s newest film, fathers from around the United States say they can do more. They want to do more. But they can’t …