TY - SER AU - Rameka, Lesley AU - Berryman, Mere AU - Cruse, Diana TI - Whānau wellbeing : : reclaiming precolonial Māori perspectives of men, fathers and parenting PY - 2024/// PB - Taylor & Francis, KW - CHILD REARING KW - COLONISATION KW - FATHERS KW - MĀTUA KW - PARENTING KW - RANGAHAU MĀORI KW - TAIPŪWHENUATANGA KW - TAMARIKI KW - TĀNE KW - TE AO MĀORI KW - TIKANGA TUKU IHO KW - NEW ZEALAND N1 - Settler Colonial Studies, 2024, First published online, 25 July 2024 N2 - The role of mātua (fathers) in the parenting of their tamariki (children) is bound within cultural worldviews, values, norms and expectations. For pre-colonial Māori, the primal parents, Ranginui (Sky Father) and Papatūānuku (Earth Mother), not only provided an archetypical depiction of parenting, but established child rearing practices, whānau (familial and extended family) roles and responsibilities and the place of individuals, including tamariki and mātua. Colonisation impacted hugely on traditional tamaiti (child) rearing practices, introducing western parenting norms and perspectives. This article explores the knowledge, experiences and understandings of contemporary mātua, related to their ideas about being tāne [The use of the macron above the ā in words such as tane (tāne) and matua (mātua) indicates the plural form is being referred to. Where relevant we have followed this convention throughout] (men) Māori, parenting understandings, roles, relationships and aspirations for their tamariki. (Authors' abstract). Record #8882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2024.2369735 ER -