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• The fights for more equal sharing of parenting responsibilities is on

  13th May 2012, 7:30pm |

  There are three policy proposals on the table at the moment, put there by Government, current and previous. They all change the way fatherhood is constructed in UK law and policy.

  Birth registration: a proposal to increase the expectation on unmarried fathers to sign a birth certificate by (rather gently!)…

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• Motherhood vs. Feminism – a false debate

  07th May 2012, 4:23pm |

  Parenting minus the fathers The recent discussion, Motherhood vs. Feminism, in the New York Times’ Motherlode Blog, demonstrates to perfection the blindness to father-child attachment that blankets the western debate about parenting. For all five parenting experts who start the debate, there is no such thing as father-child attachment. The…

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• Why, despite all the talk, are we failing to support fatherhood?

  29th April 2012, 4:38pm |

  The modern village to raise a child? Fathers not included. Here is a proposed answer to the question all advocates for supporting fatherhood are asking themselves – why are we failing to such an extent? There is an ice-berg that sinks nearly every programme that supports fatherhood. It is a…

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• Time for a new fatherhood campaign: high expectations

  13th April 2012, 8:41pm |

  I have come back to the field of fatherhood after a break. I have given myself six months before allowing a reaction, but now it is time. I am shocked at how the agenda has stagnated. It is time for a campaign that makes it impossible for family services simply…

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• Goethe on fatherhood

  01st April 2012, 3:38pm |

  I listened this week to Schubert’s song, Erlking, a terrifying account of a child’s death as his father “holds him safely, keeping him warm”. The powerful music has an incessant pounding, with the boy’s cries increasingly desperate as he appeals to his terrified father to save him. I was amazed…

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• Birth registration and fathers: please sign the letter to the Minister for Children!

  24th March 2012, 8:10am |

  This week I organised a joint letter to Sarah Teather, Minister for Children and Families, asking her to support new legislation that would make it the default for unmarried fathers, like married fathers, to sign the birth certificate. It was a response to the story in the Daily Mail saying…

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• What can the Prime Minister do to support fatherhood?

  25th February 2012, 4:16pm |

  David Cameron and family Following a recent visit to No.10 with Family Matters Institute, we were asked: what five things the Prime Minister might do for fatherhood? We recommended a Big Society approach: 1. Strengthen the hand of fathers in the workplace to negotiate more opportunities for family friendly work…

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• Letter to Frank Field - a family approach to child poverty?

  11th July 2010, 6:37am |

  I have written to Frank Field in response to his speech about fathers and child poverty. I have copied it to Iain Duncan-Smith and Nick Clegg. In summary:

  Child poverty is a family function, not just an issue between a child and a “primary carer”. The ability of adults in…

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• Jon Davies, CEO, to leave Families Need Fathers

  25th June 2010, 5:48pm |

  Jon Davies is leaving Families Need Fathers. He writes: After almost four years taking FNF from a little known and often misunderstood charity to something approaching respectability it is time to move! I have been planning this for some time but my Damascene moment came when I saw three and…

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• Barack Obama speaks about fatherhood

  22nd June 2010, 9:54pm |

  “It is time for a new conversation around fatherhood in this country.” I feel I am watching history in the making - the most powerful man in the world talking about his own struggles as a father, speaking for all fathers. And he recognises our “days of worry and struggle”…

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