KIANGAN, Ifugao – In a bid to develop and enhance the father’s attitudes, knowledge, and skills on Early Child Care and Development and equipping adolescent children in handling and meeting adult roles and responsibilities and raising children with spiritual values, 30 fathers were trained on empowerment and re-affirmation of paternal abilities.
Mylene Pumihic of the municipal government office here said that the activity establishes support networks among fathers in the community and enhances their active participation and involvement especially in establishing a drug-free family, understanding and preventing HIV-AIDS and all forms of family violence.
“The plight of fathers in the province of Ifugao especially in the Municipality of Kiangan is highly recognized thus, there is a need for the said training to enhance and remind all fathers about their roles and especially that they are the head of the family,” Pumihic said.
The 30 fathers from Barangay Bolog who participated in the training are expected to appreciate being a parent more than become mere expectators in their chosen “vocation.”
In the Philippines, traditional gender roles’ differentiation still persists through the proliferation of the “macho image of men.” Thus, they assume care giving more as a feminine activity. “Hence there is a need for realization of fathers that parenting is a participatory role among men and women,” Pumihic said. |
