The Importance of Father’s Involvement in Growing a Mentally Healthy Generation

Abstract

Parenting challenges are increasingly diverse. Parents have to deal with parenting challenges in the real world, digital world, and parenting challenges that arise along with changing times. It takes cooperation between parents to create both physically and mentally healthy children. However, in Indonesia, parenting is mainly focused and only emphasizes the mother’s side, while the father is still labeled as the breadwinner. In fact, father’s involvement is needed in the parenting process to create a mentally healthy generation. This article aims to 1) Explain how father involvement can create mentally healthy children, and 2) As a reference that can motivate fathers to be more involved in parenting. This article was written using a literature review technique with seven articles that matched the criteria. The result of this literature review is that the father’s involvement plays an essential role in children’s mental health, which can also be seen through good self-control, mental wellbeing, life satisfaction, and good emotional regulation.