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Today\u2019s episode is an important one in the field of parental mental health. Unfortunately, fathers are often overlooked in many aspects of parenthood and family dynamics. To build strong families, we need to involve all parents in the path to parenthood and in providing family-supporting resources. Join us to learn more!\nJane Honikman, M.S. co-founded Postpartum Education for Parents (PEP), co-founded the Postpartum Action Institute, and founded Postpartum Support International (PSI). Jane is the author of several parenting support books: Community Support for New Families; I\u2019m Listening: A Guide to Supporting Postpartum Families; My Diary: A Postpartum Journey from Pain to Purpose; Postpartum Action Manual: How to Provide Comfort, Encouragement, and Guidance to New Families; and Parental Mental Health: Factoring in Fathers. She was born and raised in Palo Alto, California, and has lived in Santa Barbara since 1970. She and her husband have three adult married children, eight grandchildren, and a cat.\nShow Highlights:\n\nHow Jane looked to her mother as a role model but didn\u2019t follow conventional social rules as she became an adult\n\nHow fantasies about life can set you up for failure and disaster\n\nWhy Jane was involved in the movement to make mothers and fathers equal partners in parenthood in the 70s\n\nHow family mental illness and her personal trauma pushed Jane into her work with parental mental health\n\nThe flip in inequity with what we\u2019ve done to men and their feelings\n\nWhat we should change regarding fathers\n\nHow Jane partnered with Dan Singley to write Factoring in Fathers\n\nWhy men today struggle to identify role models in manhood and parenthood\n\nHow postpartum mental illness affects men in different forms than women\n\nHow pediatricians can do more in parental mental health with the whole family\n\nAvailable resources for fathers\n\nHow mental health clinicians can do better in their work with families\n\nWhy the postpartum period never really comes to an end\n\n\xa0Resources:\nInstagram: (@parental_health)\xa0\nTwitter: Parental_Health\nFactoring In Fathers\nJane\u2019s books:\nCommunity Support for New Families\nI\u2019m Listening: A Guide to Supporting Postpartum Families\nMy Diary: A Postpartum Journey from Pain to Purpose\nPostpartum Action Manual: How to Provide Comfort, Encouragement, and Guidance to New Families\nParental Mental Health: Factoring in Fathers by Jane Honikman and Daniel Singley