Fatherhood has taken a beating of recent times with single parent families almost the norm, it seems.

But a lot of research shows quite clearly that those kids who grow up with their fathers are better rounded people in almost every way.

Put another way, kids that grow up without their fathers are higher risk in every category you don't them to be.

Ian Grant has been this county's foremost family advocate for many decades and the chance to hear him speak on ‘Fathers Who Dare Win' is on Saturday 16 March at Holy Trinity.

With him is American psychiatrist, neuroscientist and author Dr Curt Thompson with some profound truths about family dynamics and fathers in particular.

Bring your father or husband or dad along and you could all learn something.

Tickets available at fatherswhodarewin.com/events or at Holy Trinity on the day.

Graeme Martin, Otumoetai.