Ground-breaking, radical and sympathetic, this book challenges assumptions about men as fathers, revealing that parenting behavior is shaped less by biology than by social conditioning. Men's fathering instincts, strong and innate, are often sabotaged by cultural and social expectations.
This informative, fascinating and lively exploration draws on diaries - ancient and modern - as well as on wide-ranging research and interviews with fathers from all social groups, to give voice to what it has meant, and means now, to be a father.
