fathering as a strategy for the development of new masculinities and prevention of violence

Abstract

The responsibility of male care for offspring as a strategy to prevent violence resulting from an unequal and unfair logic that is based on hierarchical power relations based on patriarchal and sexist ideologies, so that the active, present, participatory and caring exercise of fatherhood , which can be called paternity, as a strategy for the development of new masculinities, given that care, within the binary and stereotyped logic of gender, is considered a female identity and performance, but once men appropriate and practice care not only breaks standards and barriers, but contributes to the construction of gender equality, with regard to rights and opportunities, given that it divides the responsibility of one of the pillars of inequality between men and women, which is care, political and economic aspect of social and family life linked to reproductive work, which, due to a biological determinism based on the sexual and reproductive apparatus, separates, divides and imposes on women the task of managing the private, domestic and family economy, care for home and with the family.