Men will soon be given the right to ask for more leave to look after their children. About time too, says Virginia Ironside
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The truth about daddy day care
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Calls for fathers to have greater paternity leave rights
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Nicola Brewer, chief executive of Equality and Human Rights Commission, has called for fathers to have the right to more paid paternity leave to end the present “unequal sharing of caring” that is penalising women in the workplace and marginalising the role of fathers. Read More »
Time spent with children not affected by paternity leave
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Melbourne, Australia: One of the main arguments in favour of paternity leave is that new fathers who have time off work will spend more quality time with their newborn children.
But research in Australia has found that fathers spend the same amount of time with their babies, regardless of the amount of paternity leave they take. Read More »
Canadian paternity leave has more new dads spending time at home
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Fathers in Quebec, Canada, are spending more time with their newborn children thanks to a new, generous paternity leave programme.
The success of the Quebec programme means that over half of eligible fathers took paternity leave in 2006, compared with just one in ten fathers in the rest of Canada. Read More »
Father’s Day cards “banned” in Scottish schools
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According to the Daily Telegraph, thousands of primary pupils in Scotland were prevented from making Father’s Day cards at school this year for fear, it says, of embarrassing classmates who live with single mothers and lesbians. Read More »
Welcome to HomeDad.org.uk
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Over the next few days we will be updating the HomeDad UK website, giving it a new, fresh look. The website is now based on a content management system (WordPress) which will be much easier to maintain and add new content.
The exisiting forum will continue with the same address.
We hope you like the new site, and we welcome your comments and suggestions. Please report any problems that you find with the site as there are bound to be one or two teething troubles.
While the new site is being built, the old site will continue for the time being. You can follow the More HomeDad link on the right.
As always, we welcome original content, so if you would like to write to us, or would like us to link to your own blog, then please get in touch.
Acas urges carers to seek help in the workplace
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With three million people in the UK juggling work with caring responsibilities, Acas, the employment relations specialists, is urging employees to seek help in the workplace ahead of Carers week which starts on the 9 June. Read More »
Stay-at-home Parents “Worth £30k”
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Stay at home parents are worth £30,000 (€50,000) a year, according to new research published today.
If you had to pay someone else to do all the tasks that you do as a stay at home parent, from childcare to cleaning, cooking, driving family members around and doing accounts, it would cost the average family £30,000.
Two thirds of the 4,000 housewives surveyed said they felt their hard work went unrewarded and unappreciated.
Unfortunately, the role played by stay at home dads seems to have gone unnoticed altogether.
Are you on the “Daddy Track”?
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Stay at home dads have been in the news again this month after Harriet Harman, the Minister for Women, said it should be the norm for men and women to share work and childcare equally. This was too much for many columnists, such as Tom Sykes, writing in the Daily Mail or Carol Saler in the Times but it is simply what many families - and many stay at home dads - have been doing for years. Read More »
My Cyber Baby: One baby in 5 has online profile
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Gone are the days of relying on newspaper announcements and word of mouth to spread the word about your new arrival. One in five parents sends a picture of their newborn baby to friends and family within 10 minutes of the birth, with almost half of parents taking snaps of their bundle of joy within the hour. Read More »