Policy » Disability
16 February 2013
Many policy documents and some legislation require family, health and education professionals to engage with ‘parents’. This should, of course, mean that they engage with fathers as well as mothers – but research show that this tends to happen all too rarely.
Policy » Disability
31 January 2013
Parental Responsibility is a legal status an adult can hold in relation to a child, which gives that adult all the ‘rights and responsibilities’ of a parent.
FI research » Disability
19 January 2011
This research summary covers:
Trends in father involvement in the UK
Aspirations
Satisfaction
Family and work stress: fathers’ experiences
Leave policies and father involvement
Father-care, gender equity and child wellbeing
Fathers’ employment and child wellbeing
Business/economic costs/benefits of father involvement
Low income fathers’ employment
References
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Trends in father involvement in the UK
Mothers in Britain increasingly engage in paid work (mainly part-time) from when their children are very young:
Today 50% of mothers of 9-month-olds are in paid employment (Dex & Ward, 2010) with 70% working earlier than planned because of money concerns (Pykett, 2009) and others motivated by a desire to escape full-time childcare (Miller, 2005).
Practice » Disability
2 July 2010
Making sure your agency registers key information about all dads as a matter of course is a MUST. In fact for all agency staff to ROUTINELY gather such details is the single most important step to engaging with substantial numbers of young fathers.