(Photograph) - A photographic exhibition, 'Images of Fatherhood', aims to inspire fathers in Scotland to spend more time with their children when they are young, writes Joyce Reid. Pictures by professional photographers stand alongside family snaps. They include photos of fathers with their children in parenting classes in Greenock Prison. Fathers from a community project in Easterhouse submitted photos depicting their family's 'precious moments'. The exhibition was organised by Healthy Fathering Scotland, a charity set up in January last year to highlight the importance of male role models. Its national development officer, Eva Asante (pictured), said, 'It is well-established that when fathers play a more caring, sensitive and responsive nurturing role in a child's upbringing, youth problems such as truancy, poor performance in school, teenage pregnancy and anti-social behaviour are reduced or even prevented. What is not so well known is that these fathers are then much less likely to develop stress-related illnesses.'
(Photograph) - A photographic exhibition, 'Images of Fatherhood', aims to inspire fathers in Scotland to spend more time with their children when they are young, writes Joyce Reid. Pictures by professional photographers stand alongside family snaps. They include photos of fathers with their children in parenting classes in Greenock Prison. Fathers from a community project in Easterhouse submitted photos depicting their family's 'precious moments'.
The exhibition was organised by Healthy Fathering Scotland, a charity set up in January last year to highlight the importance of male role models. Its national development officer, Eva Asante (pictured), said, 'It is well-established that when fathers play a more caring, sensitive and responsive nurturing role in a child's upbringing, youth problems such as truancy, poor performance in school, teenage pregnancy and anti-social behaviour are reduced or even prevented. What is not so well known is that these fathers are then much less likely to develop stress-related illnesses.'
The exhibition opened in Glasgow and Stirling and is now at the Church of St John, Princes Street, Edinburgh, for six weeks.
Photo Paul Reid
