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means The state of being a father, along with the duties, role, and relationship that come with having a child.
from A straightforward English compound: 'father' joined to '-hood,' the old suffix meaning a state or condition (as in childhood, brotherhood). 'Father' descends from Old English 'fæder,' part of a vast ancient family — the Latin 'pater,' Greek 'patēr,' and Sanskrit 'pitr' all trace back to the same Proto-Indo-European root '*ph₂tḗr.' The '-hood' ending comes from Old English 'hād,' which once meant 'rank, quality, or condition' as a word in its own right before shrinking into a suffix.
- hormone shift
- new fathers' testosterone drops measurably after birth
- brain rewire
- caregiving fathers grow gray matter in nurturing regions
- deep voice
- fathers unconsciously raise pitch when speaking to babies
- seahorse exception
- male seahorses literally carry and birth the young
- day origin
- father's day faced decades of mockery before catching on
arnold schwarzenegger's twins — played same character's biological children in 1988 film 'twins', one played by him, one by danny devito
bill cosby show — sitcom where he played father cliff huxtable for 8 seasons (1984-1992), defining tv fatherhood for a generation