Launching a Cross-disciplinary and Cross-national Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood

Grau‐Grau, Marc; Bowles, Hannah Riley

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“…Expecting a child could therefore be an opportunity to offer men a consultation designed to protect the mother and the foetus from transmissible diseases, but also to improve or preserve their own health (19).…”

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Most users of a prenatal consultation dedicated to future fathers are immigrants facing hardship

Penot,

Jacob,

Guerizec

et al. 2023

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BackgroundPrenatal care provides pregnant women with repeated opportunities for prevention, screening and diagnosis that have no current extension to future fathers. Prenatal care explains why HIV-infected women are diagnosed earlier than heterosexual men wordwide and contributes to women’s general better access to health. The goal of PARTAGE study was to access the level and determinants of adherence to a prenatal prevention consultation dedicated to men.MethodsBetween January 2021 and April 2022, we conducted an interventional study assessing the acceptance of a prenatal prevention consultation newly offered to every woman over 18 attending prenatal care in Montreuil’s maternity ward, and extending it to the future father, when there was one.Results3,038 women provided contact information that was used to reach the father ; effective contact was established with 2,516 men, of whom 1,333 (53%) came for prenatal prevention consultation. Immigrant men were more likely to come than French-born men (56% versus 49%, p < 0.001), and the greater the precariousness of their situation, the more likely they were to accept the offer. In a multivariate analysis, men born in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia were twice as likely to attend the consultation as those born in Europe or North America.ConclusionAcceptance of this new offer was high. Moreover, this consultation was perceived by economically vulnerable immigrant men as an opportunity to integrate a healthcare system they would otherwise remain deprived of.

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Most users of a prenatal consultation dedicated to future fathers are immigrants facing hardship

Penot,

Jacob,

Guerizec

et al. 2023

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“…An important feature of current recommendations is a reproductive life plan, which can improve men's fertility awareness 359 and provides an opportunity for assessment of risk factors for infertility, and timely intervention if need be 357 . A shift to preconception care for men 360 presents a myriad of research opportunities to better understand male infertility. Such information will provide key indicators of male reproductive health including opportunities to continually assess fertility prediction and examination of diagnostic markers in different regional populations 13 .…”

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Frequency, morbidity and equity — the case for increased research on male fertility

Kimmins,

Anderson,

Barratt

et al. 2023

Nat Rev Urol

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Currently most infertile men cannot be given an aetiology. This reflects a lack of knowledge around gamete production and how they are impacted by genetics and environment. There is a failure to recognise the burden of male infertility and its potential as a biomarker for systemic illness. The absence of such knowledge results in patients generally being treated as a uniform group, where the strategy is to by-pass the causality, by medically assisted reproduction (MAR).In doing so, opportunities to prevent co-morbidity are missed and the burden of MAR shifted to the female partner.To advance understanding of male reproductive health, longitudinal and multi-national centres for data and sample collection are essential. Such programs must allow for an integrated view of the consequences of genetics, epigenetics and environmental factors on fertility and offspring health.There is a need to define what these consequences of MAR are for conceived children, and where possible to ameliorate them. Inherent in this statement is the necessity to promote fertility restoration, and/or use the least invasive MAR strategy available. To achieve this, protocols must be rigorously tested and the move towards personalised medicine encouraged.Equally, there is a need to educate the public, governments, and clinicians on the frequency and consequences of infertility. Health options, including male-based contraceptives, must be expanded, and the opportunities encompassed in such investment understood.The aim of this opinion piece is to identify the pressing questions related to male reproductive health, spanning the spectrum of andrology.

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Fatherhood Involvement as a Source of Human Flourishing

Grau‐Grau

2022

Human Flourishing

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This chapter attempts to connect fatherhood involvement with human flourishing. We begin by presenting to the reader the reasons why fatherhood involvement matters. We then review fatherhood as a transformative event, together with the barriers that may limit the transformational aspect of fatherhood. Next, we review the concept of generativity, and a new definition of paternal generativity is also provided. Then, we present a model that connects fatherhood to human flourishing, partially explained by the role of paternal generativity and relational flourishing. Finally, the chapter ends with implications for researchers, organizations, and governments.

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Launching a Cross-disciplinary and Cross-national Conversation on Engaged Fatherhood

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Most users of a prenatal consultation dedicated to future fathers are immigrants facing hardship

Most users of a prenatal consultation dedicated to future fathers are immigrants facing hardship

Frequency, morbidity and equity — the case for increased research on male fertility

Fatherhood Involvement as a Source of Human Flourishing

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