Fathers’ positive involvement can bring many benefits to their children. But it matters to mothers too – helping shape their mothering and their own relationship with their baby, and enabling a more gender-equal division of care and domestic work. That's why for us, the drive for involved fatherhood is a key component of a gender-equal world – a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. This International Women’s Day, we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate six outstanding women who share our vision. Read the full story »
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“Happy Valentines Day!!” by Darwin Bell is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
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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.