Martin Freeman says men should not be too hard on themselves for failing to live up to modern-day standards of parenting. The Sherlock actor, 48, plays a stressed-out father in the new comedy Breeders.
He suggested it was difficult for men to be as hands-on as they would like to be because their forebears had not been very involved in parenting.
Asked whether this generation of fathers had tried to change too quickly, Freeman replied: “Yes. “Why did we think things had changed so much in 30 years and that we were going to be free of those feelings that our parents had? “I had a reasonably happy childhood, but neither my dad nor my stepdad, who were both great people, really lovely men, were expected to bring up their kids in the way that
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