Fathering is the skills and the daily work of being a father: caring, teaching, staying, making a child feel safe. In this meaning it is like mothering, but for a dad. Books and talks about parenting use it. Though actually, the verb to father has an older, thinner use: he fathered three children often means only that he was the biological father, not that he raised them. This word, in the sense you are learning here, is about the raising — the doing — not that thinner sense.

父職；為人父的照顧與教養