"Who is a Man? Who is a Father?" is a short film by Marlon Thompson which attempts to dispel some of the local myths about fatherhood in Jamaica and the Caribbean especially among young fathers. Three men from the Hannah Town community in Kingston talk freely and frankly about what it means to be a "real man" and a father, especially in today's Jamaica and give advice to potential fathers.
A diversity of fathering practices are cited; so too are transformations in the constitutive nature of 'fatherwork'; so too are ideas of fathers as those who reason with, protect and provide for children alongside and in 'balance' with mothers; with such care expected to endure where relationships to mothers have changed or broken down.
Thank you to Svenn Grant of The Caribbean HIV AIDS Alliance for sharing this.
