Dimensions of Fatherhood in a Congo Basin Village: A Multimethod Analysis of Intracultural Variation in Men’s Parenting and Its Relevance for Child Health

Fathers’ direct care (e.g., carrying, sensitive caregiving, cultural transmission) can potentially improve children’s health, well-being, and social development. However, between- and within-culture variation in fathers’ roles in these domains remains understudied, particularly in work on small-scale societies, and we know relatively little about how these roles intersect with indirect paternal care (e.g., provisioning, resource defense) to...