Fathers’ Role, Involvement and Cultural Expectations

• Main Author: Ruslan Slutsky
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mercy College 2019-04-01
• Series: Global Education Review
• Subjects: Father's Role in Childcare
• Online Access: https://ger.mercy.edu/index.php/ger/article/view/514

Introduction to Volume 6 no 1 of Global Education Review: Fathers’ Role, Involvement and Cultural Expectations. The present themed issue aims at delineating the importance, roles, and diverse practices of fathers in different cultures. Special attention is given into how existing policies in various countries may affect fathers’ role and involvement. A collection of articles from around th world that discuss the differences in paternal roles as grounded culturally in that fathers may be expected to play roles different from that of mothers in different cultures, and what constitutes a good father may be highly dependent on cultural, historical and familial ideologies The present themed issue aims at delineating the importance, roles, and diverse practices of fathers in different cultures. Special attention is given into how existing policies in various countries may affect fathers’ role and involvement.