We are witnessing a change slow, gradual, resisted by some yet welcome by others to the very concept of fatherhood. The old notions of fathers as distant observers of family is beginning to give way to the expectations that fathers should be present and involved in child-rearing, just as much as the mother. "La nueva paternidad" is an indispensable resource for fathers who have come to recognize love and childcare as an essential part of their role as parents."