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Rachel Syme's father has taught her a rare lesson: If you are going to become obsessed with something, do it all the way. Go so hard you almost crash. Then pick yourself up and do it again.

How does parenting change you when you've built your life around climbing rock cliffs without a rope? We asked Alex Honnold, star of the 2018 documentary Free Solo, who became a father for the first time in February.

The actor Andy García, the new Father of the Bride, says yes.

Carvell Wallace realized his job as a father is to find out what kind of world his children want to live in and to see if he can stop his whining long enough to help them manifest it.

Drew Magary is a dad, which means he's a constant source of derision for his family. This used to bother him, and occasionally it still does. But if you're a dad who can't take a light jab and is constantly demanding subservience from those you love, are you really that strong? Are you that loving? Who are you even trying to impress?

It was probably inevitable: Jeff Gordinier is a food writer who has traveled around the world in an endless quest for epiphanies of flavor, and somehow he fathered a picky eater.

Alexis Ohanian—a cofounder of Reddit, husband of Serena Williams, and, along with groups like the nonprofit PL+US, a tireless advocate for a federal family-leave policy—makes the case for why even the busiest dads should have the right to spend time with their newborns.

Justin Kirkland loves his father, but they are about as dissimilar as two similar people can get. Kirkland had always wanted to ask dad how he'd reconciled his expectations of fatherhood and the reality of his son. Recently, he did just that.

Brady Langmann's dad died this March after a long struggle with COPD. The morning after, Langmann sat down to write his obituary. He had a few hours to answer a question usually saved for decades on a shrink's lounger: How will he remember his father?

Why do certain men feel compelled to continue procreating at an age when most of their contemporaries are puttering toward retirement? Esquire asked legendary South American chef Francis Mallmann, who has seven children from four different relationships.