{"id":92376,"date":"2017-06-17T10:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=92376"},"modified":"2017-06-17T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T05:21:45","slug":"fathers-must-give-time-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/fathers-must-give-time-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers must give time to children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cUnicef urges governments and the private sector to increase spending and influence policies to support early childhood development programmes that focus on providing parents with the resources and information they need to provide nurturing care to their children,\u201d read their statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fathers are struggling to spend time with their children world over, shows a recent Unicef survey released on the occasion of Fathers\u2019 Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than half \u2013 or 55% &#8211; of children aged between 3 and 4 years-old in 74 countries \u2013 approximately 40 million \u2013 have fathers who do not play or engage in early learning activities with them, shows the survey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92377\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5834a0ec1a00000b03cc9539.jpeg\" alt=\"Fathers must give time to children\" width=\"1910\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5834a0ec1a00000b03cc9539.jpeg 1910w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/5834a0ec1a00000b03cc9539-768x402.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1910px) 100vw, 1910px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat these numbers show us is that fathers are struggling to play an active role in their children\u2019s early years\u201d said Laurence Chandy, Unicef director of data, research and policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The activities include having their father read to the children, tell them stories or sing with them; taking them outside, playing with them; and naming, counting or drawing with them. The MICS is the largest collection of comparable data on parental behaviours in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnicef urges governments and the private sector to increase spending and influence policies to support early childhood development programmes that focus on providing parents with the resources and information they need to provide nurturing care to their children,\u201d read their statement. Fathers are struggling to spend time with their children world over, shows a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[46701,46697,21949,46700,46699,46702,15980,10091,46703,46698],"class_list":["post-92376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-childhood-development-programmes","tag-fathers-must-give-time-to-children","tag-governments","tag-influence-policies","tag-private-sector","tag-providing-parents","tag-support","tag-unicef","tag-unicef-survey","tag-urges"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/dia-dos-pais-smt-shutterstock_160939232.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}