‘Fatherhood Project’ Set to Transform Understandings Across Past Century
How has the experience of fatherhood changed over the last one-hundred years?
This is the question being explored by a new research project from Monash University called “Fatherhood: an Australian History 1919-2019”.
The project explores, through personal experiences and social attitudes, how the role of fathers has evolved during a period of significant social change. In addition, it also extends towards global understanding of the (positive and negative contributions) fathers make to family well-being, and will impact the understandings and approaches of Fatherhood to Australian family health, policy, education and resilience.
On The Record presenters Madeleine Lombardi and Will Yagmich are joined in the studio with Dr. Kate Murphy from Monash University.
Together they discuss how the idea for kickstarting the project was first established, including what the image and expectations were between fatherhood in today’s contemporary socio-cultural landscape and back one-hundred years ago.
