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🗺️ Fatherhood across continents: a global tour of being a dad

Family practices vary within countries as well as between them.

Continent by continent

  1. 1. What to prepare

    Ask families about their own routines and support networks rather than assigning them a continental parenting style.

  2. 2. What to check

    Keep useful traditions while following safe feeding, sleep and healthcare advice. Treat cultural descriptions as examples, not legal entitlements.

  3. 3. In Singapore

    Mummy, daddy, nappies/nappies, cot, pram/stroller and polyclinic are familiar terms, but household languages and names differ. Confinement practices are family choices, not medical requirements; do not delay feeding, washing or urgent care to follow a custom.

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