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In the last month, the Daily Mail has run five particularly good pieces on modern fatherhood – well informed, sympathetic, challenging of stereotypes. Taken together, they represent a remarkable portrait of fatherhood today. I take my hat off to the Daily Mail! Greg Williams (Exhausted, guilt-ridden, torn between career and children. No, not . . . → Read More: Daily Mail top of the pops in its coverage of fatherhood this month "Time to stop work, Dad". Taken as part of the DCSF's Think Fathers Campaign at RAF Halton last week. I hand this week’s blog to Barack Obama, the greatest ever orator on fatherhood. He gives a message we can all identify with….. It is rarely easy. There are plenty of days of . . . → Read More: Barack Obama on fatherhood, Fathers Day 2009
One of the authors of the three books, is quoted as saying, “New mums are better at parenting than new dads, but there’s a reason why: they are programmed to mother.” This resulted in an outpouring of comments in the following days, most characterised by generosity and common sense – 176 comments in total. It is the best discussion on fatherhood on-line that I have ever seen. Participation was 50/50 men and women. About one quarter of respondents agreed with the statement and the rest disagreed – vehemently. Continue reading The best on-line discussion on fatherhood I have seen – Daily Mail on-line  A father's place is in the home - at least some of the time? So, it’s official. The extension of paternity leave has been ditched. The official reason is the recession, but the decision to delay an increase in paternity leave until after the next general election had been taken well before any recession was in sight. There are two key points about the current situation that no commentators have pointed out. First, dumping the change to paternity leave is not going to make much difference to families and children because the system was not going to work anyway. Continue reading It is time for the interests of children to balance the interests of business |
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