Carlos Maxwell (pictured left, in a yellow t-shirt with his son Dean, then aged 11) is a father of two from Harrow in north London. He took part in the Dads in Demand animation project which we ran with Campaign…
David Simons, an IT consultant from Kew in south-west London, attended a Fatherhood Institute ‘Hit the Ground Crawling’ course in February 2012. His son Daniel was born 3 months later. David explains what a difference the course made to him:…
Jeremy Davies writes: The Fatherhood Institute is a tiny organisation which has to work hard to punch above its weight at a policy level. It’s often thanks to our measured, intelligent and persuasive lobbying and that fathers and fatherhood get…
We continue to campaign for legislation to bring in joint birth registration, to be enacted – after it emerged last week that Sarah Teather, Minister for Children and Families, may be blocking this.
We have written to Ms Teather, along…
Jeremy Davies writes: Today I was invited to speak on a phone-in on the Kaye Adams show on BBC Scotland, for International Women’s Day.
The topic was a report by the Social Issues Research Centre called The Changing Face of…
Jeremy Davies writes: It’s heartening to see that Daddy Daycare, Channel 4′s so-bad-I-don’t-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry documentary series in which fathers take on temporary work placements in nurseries, is eliciting lots of negative comment from TV reviewers and the Twitterati alike.
What’s so maddening…
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London want to find dads with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) to take part in a study.
There is now a lot of evidence that people who suffer from problems with anxiety are…
Last April new Government rules took effect, allowing dads to take up mothers’ unused maternity leave. We welcomed the change, although we knew their impact would be relatively slight (read our summary of the changes here).
Now we’re looking for…