Dads
Research about Dads
These reports presents the results of a 3-year project commissioned by the Public Health Service, Nelson-Marlborough District Health Board. The research was carried out in collaboration with the School of Health and Social Sciences, Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. The project was commissioned in the knowledge that New Zealand families were changing and that men were becoming more involved in child rearing, yet the conditions to support this change were not in place. For example, services that work with families, while aware of the need for more involvement of dads, were unsure of how to make their services more attractive or accessible to dads. The 3-year project involved 3 separate but aligned studies.