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How can we give children the best possible chance of a loving and positive relationship with their fathers? What levers do we pull, who do we need to engage, and how can we access the resources needed to create frameworks in which families are able to step up to the plate and ‘walk the talk’ of gender equality?
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MenCare is a global campaign that aims to engage men as fathers and caregivers, to promote gender equality and family well-being.
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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).
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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.
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If a mother is depressed after the birth of a child then everyone is in trouble: the mother, the new baby and the father.
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This is one of a series of guides to help agencies develop father-inclusive services, produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ Parenting Implementation Project (PIP), which ran from early 2008 until June 2009.