ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights some rather important issues regarding the role of the father in the development of young children. Since the 1980s, women and men have become more interested in how men approach parenting in light of the rapid shift in family values with the attendant stresses on traditional roles. Both men and women became more involved in discussing how the division of labour in child-rearing arrangements, employment out of the home, and gender redefinitions were influencing men as parents. In many of the homes there was an integration of the father's changed expectations of family life that promoted a psychological blending of male and female involvement in the parenting. The fathers' input needed more visibility because the couple and extended family relationships seemed most stuck in the past divisions of labour. Fathers and mothers both attend Tempo Lineare and are very involved with their children and the parents' group.
