About Year of the Dad

Today’s families are diverse and services and workplaces need to reflect their needs. Single parents need support, particularly where biological fathers are not involved - which is the case in about five per cent of families in Scotland. But biological dads are only one kind of father, and we know that children benefit from a more inclusive definition of the other “father-figures” who may have a positive nurturing influence in their lives: uncles, gay dads, godfathers, adoptive dads, grandads, stepdads, male mentors or teachers and many others.