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Daddy dearest: The anxieties, joys and realities of modern day dads

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Happy Father's Day to all dads in Kenya. About 80 per cent of the world's men and boys will become fathers in their lifetime, and more as stepfathers, foster and adoptive fathers. Virtually all men have some connection to children, as relatives, teachers, coaches or simply members of the community. But there is no country in the world where men and boys share the unpaid domestic and care work equally with women and girls. Women now make up 40 per cent of the global formal workforce, yet they also continue to perform two to ten times more caregiving and domestic work than men do.

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