The Venezuelan salsero Oscar D\u2019Le\u00f3n popularized, with the song \u201cRegalo de Dios,\u201d the affirmation that \u201cthere is only one mother, fathers like rice.\u201d Such a sentence makes less and less sense, it is less and less true. Fatherhood, like motherhood, is a type of bond, with specific contents, with specific social mandates, with notorious historical challenges.<\/p>\n
The roles of fatherhood today have more responsibility than help, more communication than discipline, more affection than rigor, more closeness than distance. This transit is nominalized in the progressive substitution of the father noun, rigor in every letter, by that of dad, more flexible and accessible.<\/p>\n
Increasingly more dads are a constant in parks, hospitals and schools, in places of learning outside the formal education system. There are more fathers who accompany school homework and domestic tasks. Dads who tell stories before going to sleep, dads who accompany, listen and advise.<\/p>\n