As Andy Murray will soon find out, it’s no longer enough for fathers to read the occasional bedtime story and be home for bathtime on Fridays: millennial dads are embracing proper, hands-on fatherhood with more enthusiasm and passion than any previous generation.
While at the Australian Open, Murray, 28, revealed he had been reading a parenting book aimed at fathers in preparation for the birth of his first child later this month. The book, Commando Dad, by ex-Royal Engineer Neil Sinclair and also read by Prince William and Benedict Cumberbatch, is Amazon’s bestselling “dad manual” and has been translated into 15 languages. It’s one of a growing number of parenting books aimed at fathers — a market that didn’t even exist ten years ago.