Parental involvement in daily care of children with/without disability. Shared fields of educating

Abstract

This article describes the results of the study “Being fathers, today: a research on paternal involvement in the child care”, that represents the second phase of a previous research “The educational role of fathers with children with disabilities”. Particular attention will be paid to the issue of “paternal evaporation”, seeking however also to underline which important peculiarities the “male” can bring to parental education, starting from the experience of 59 fathers with little children (some with disabilities and others without disabilities). Fathers, through their own eyes, offered their impressions on the so-called “new father”, the main educational tasks characterising everyday life and the impacts of their son on themselves in order to underline the “ordinary territories” in education parental.