Norway – Research and development services and related consultancy services – R&D assignments - Family Research - father's role in the family

The aim of the assignment is to strengthen the knowledge basis on father's role in Family. The assignment shall contribute to giving Bufdir a better basis for developing good initiatives and services that support fathers' involvement in children's lives, both in cases where the parents live together and where they live separately. Project shall provide knowledge of fathers as carers and on the importance of the father-child relation for children's well-being, development and mental health through childhood and adolescence. Understanding how different conditions affect the father-child relationship is, among other things, important for further development parent support field in a way that account for the changes in fathers ́ role the last ten years.