We often measure a father’s worth by the money he spends on providing and forget to celebrate the small wins in between. And with good reason, as some Kenyan fathers have given children and their mothers more than enough ammunition to fire dad-shaming guns. The 2015/16 Kenya Integrated Household Budget Survey revealed that one in three households in Kenya is headed by a woman. Fathers worth celebrating exist among us but perhaps it’s how we’ve been responding to fathers in general that exacerbates the daddy gap problem. We often measure a father’s worth by the money he spends on providing and forget to celebrate the small wins in between.

Source: Daily Nation June 21, 2019 20:59 UTC