The number of full-time stay-at-home dads in the UK has leapt by a third since before the pandemic, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics, reported in a front-page news story in The Guardian. The increase - explored in more depth in a new Fatherhood Institute briefing - seems to be part of a wider shift towards greater involvement in hands-on caregiving by fathers since pre-pandemic, as highlighted in our Closing the Gap and Lockdown Fathers: the untold story reports. Read the full story »
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The UK Parliament’s Education Select Committee has launched an inquiry into childcare affordability and early years education in England.
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We are delighted to make available several pre-prepared search packs drawn from our systematically collected and curated UK fatherhood research library, at a price of £15 per pack.
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The Fatherhood Institute is a world-leader in father-inclusive research, policy and practice. Established in 1999, we have built a strong track record, developing a remarkable knowledge and evidence base around fathers and fatherhood – and training thousands of practitioners, commissioners and others, as well as advocating for policy change and developing high quality resources for dads.
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We know that sometimes it feels like you’re the forgotten parent. Nobody smiles at you or talks to you, invites you to appointments about the baby, or asks you how you are.
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Bringing Baby Home, our review of empirical evidence about UK fathers and fatherhood in the first postnatal year, explores who dads are; what they do as caregivers, and what influences this; what impact they have (on children and mothers); and how services engage with them.
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The Fatherhood Institute (UK charity number 1075104) is a small charity that has been working behind the scenes to raise the profile of ‘involved fatherhood’ since 1999.
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We often hear the phrase ‘families come in all shapes and
sizes’ these days. But in research, policy and practice there’s still a
tendency to define fathers in a simplistic and binary way: you’re either ‘resident’
or ‘non-resident’.