Are you a Dad? Do you want to be known as the father of your child or just the 'partner' of his mother?
Research released today by MSD into protective factors for vulnerable children based on the longitudinal Growing Up in NZ study refers only to mothers and partners, not mothers and fathers.
Fathers are only referred to in token reference to overseas research. Barely at all.
There is a huge irony in play here. I doubt the researchers noticed.
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Or as they say
Our findings suggest that programmes that focus solely on mother-child interactions, without attending to the mother-partner relationship, might be missing an important opportunity for reducing adversities in childhood.
That must be the modern way of saying children need fathers.
Maybe it should be mother and sperm donors. How long I wonder before any reference to the male of the species, especially white males will become hate speech under the new hate speech laws that are coming,
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