How to support fathers towards committed fatherhood?

Almost everyone recognizes that the old model, in which men were the breadwinners while women took care of the household, has practically disappeared.

The challenge of these times is not to keep talking about how to support women in obtaining demanding and competitive jobs through women's quotas in business and government, but to talk about how to enable men to fully assume their role as fathers and get the recognition and support they deserve.

When men want to step forward and take on more family responsibilities in relation to childcare and housework, social and organizational support is still insufficient.

This is why companies, in their recruitment efforts, need to be more aware and sensitive to how today's working fathers-men think and feel about their roles and responsibilities as fathers.

Young men who are reaching adulthood in this century see their role, in addition to providing financial support for their families, as providing emotional and physical care for their children. Few feel that a high commitment to their personal lives makes them less committed to their work.

The greater the support from the family, both fathers and mothers, the less the conflict between work and family, and the lower the intentions of abandonment, and the greater the job satisfaction and work-life balance.