Interpretive outcomes and survey findings update ethnographic accounts of the 1950s and provide more recent empirical data to support policy and programme initiatives for influencing male reproductive behaviour and father roles. A synthesis of phenomenology and rational choice theory and a sequential mixed methods QUAL QUAN QUAL research design builds on each phase of inquiry. The interpretive outcomes suggest that associated meanings are socially constructed during primary socialization and later determines behaviours in intimate relationships and the manifestation of father roles....