In March, MenCare Guatemala’s coordinator ECPAT co-organized eight workshops for health care providers around themes of active fatherhood and caregiving, providing training for a total of 55 health professionals. The goal of the workshops was to train health providers on how to get men involved in maternal and child health, how to coordinate group education …
Read an interview with Márcio Chagas da Paz, a participant in MenCare workshops in Brazil, as part of the International Museum of Women’s “Mama: Motherhood Around the Globe” online exhibition. The International Museum of Women chose Márcio as one of its heroes because he “knows from personal experience that men who have had troubled relationships …
Eight MenCare fact sheets on corporal punishment, authored by MenCare’s co-coordinator Sonke Gender Justice, debunk common myths about corporal punishment and promote positive discipline and caregiving. A substantial body of evidence exists regarding the negative effects of corporal punishment on children, and recent studies demonstrate that corporal punishment has a range of adverse neurological, physical, …
Caring for children is hard work that requires the same expenditure of energy as paid work does, and it is time lost if not taken advantage of. …
AMAZA is a South African youth drama TV series that shows the impact of fatherhood and speaks to the purpose of the MenCare campaign. …
On May 8th, NYU Washington DC is holding the “Weissberg Forum for Discourse in the Public Square” to discuss young men, fatherhood and non-violence. …