Let's be honest - when we talk about parenting, we're often talking about mothering. Most of the research on raising kids is based on mothers. Mothers in WEIRD cultures (and by weird, I mean the acronym - Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic countries). But of course, humans are in a small group of animals where the fathers play a large role in how children are raised. This means we need to broaden our work, our discussions, and our mindsets around parenting if we're going to truly understand parenting. As such, this is the beginning of my Fatherhood series where I will be welcoming researchers who have focused on fathers in their work. There are more than you'd think and this is just the beginning of what I hope to cover. And starting us off is the researcher who comes to most minds when we think of research on fathering - Dr. Lee Gettler. This is the beginning of a two-part interview covering just a small part of his research which has advanced our knowledge on fathering across cultures and from different lenses. Here is for all the fathers out there.

Dr. Lee Gettler: https://anthropology.nd.edu/people/faculty/lee-gettler/

Relevant Research (just skimming the surface):

https://www.pnas.org/content/108/39/16194.short

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/dev.22121

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-70958-3

https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_3281046

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.23342