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Expecting men to become involved in their partner’s pregnancy can damage the father-child relationship later in life, because the experience makes them feel a failure.
By Matthew Moore
Published: 8:17AM BST 31 May 2010
Men who feel obliged to attend antenatal classes and be present for the birth of their children actually become “deskilled” at parenting, a researcher claims.
Dr Jonathan Ives of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Birmingham attacked the “false, modern rhetoric of equal involvement that has sprung up around parenting”, and said men were being set up to fail as fathers.
Dr Ives, who is leading a two-year study titled The Moral Habitus of Fatherhood, will outline his controversial views at a pregnancy conference later his month… Continue reading
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