COE Tawanda - DadConnect: Promoting father involvement in pregnancy and the postnatal period to enhance early stimulation and child development in 2017

Abstract

the project proposes to build on existing scholarship and extend scholarly networks on father involvement in their childrens lives from early in pregnancy to the first two years to establish its impact on child and parent mental health and wellbeing in low and middle income countries. The award will enable us to bring a decade of research on fathers in South Africa to promote their early involvement in childrens lives in order to lay the foundation for lifelong commitment to and support of children, which is known to benefit childrens, womens and mens health and wellbeing.