Dads matter hugely to their children. If you have a positive relationship with your dad, you’re likely to do better at school, be happier, have higher self-esteem, and even form better relationships when you’re an adult.
But all too often fathers get forgotten or sidelined, and governments, public services and employers act as if mothers are the only ones who really matter. We need this to change.
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Some enlightened employers give dads unpaid leave to attend two antenatal appointments; from 2015 this will become a legal right.
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New dads will be able to take up to 50 weeks’ parental leave to look after their babies in their first year, under new proposals to be introduced in 2015.
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Here at the Fatherhood Institute we are always very clear that fathers’ relationships with their daughters are just as important as those with their sons.
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DG* writes:
I’ve been a non-resident father for about 4 years now, and as difficult and upsetting as it’s been, the situation has been made easier by the fact that my ex-wife and I have maintained a positive relationship, and there’s never been an issue with me seeing my girls and having them come to stay with me.
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The Fatherhood Institute is calling on the government to make separated fathers exempt from the bedroom tax and take other steps to ‘draw in’ and support disadvantaged dads – who are more likely to lose contact with their children if they separate from the mother, according to new research.
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The Fatherhood Institute (UK charity number 1075104) is the most respected fatherhood organisation in the UK, if not the world.
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Program P (“P” for “Padre” in Spanish and “Pai” in Portuguese, meaning “Father”) provides concrete strategies for engaging men in active caregiving from their partner’s pregnancy through their child’s early years.
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Jeremy Davies writes:
Further to David Davies MP’s comments about ‘feckless fathers’ and subsequent media coverage (for example this Guardian article by Ally Fogg), here is an extract from the Fatherhood Institute’s Research Summary on Young Fathers, which we hope will help inform the debate:
Contrary to common belief, many young fathers have real strengths; and the stereotype of the young buck who impregnates the neighbourhood is largely an urban myth: the single most powerful predictor of adolescent fatherhood is being involved in a long-term relationship with the baby’s mother (Hanson et al, 1989).
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