How Mexico's Dads are Redefining Fatherhood

Mexican fatherhood is ditching old ideas of distant providers and embracing a more involved, present role. Experts say it's about breaking stereotypes and building equality. Social programs and open communication are key to this transformation.

How Mexico's Dads are Redefining Fatherhood
Dads are diving headfirst into the messy, rewarding world of childcare.

Today's parents have the great family responsibility of re-educating ourselves and building parenthood in a different way, more egalitarian and participatory in the exercise, and in common agreement with the children and the partner, says the academic from the National School of Social Work of the UNAM, Erik García Estrada.

Based on data from the 2020 Population and Housing Census, in Mexico there were 44.9 million men aged 15 and over, 21.2 million of them (47 percent) identified themselves as the father of at least one daughter or son residing in the same home.