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Letter to Frank Field - a family approach to child poverty?11th July 2010, 5:37am |
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, 4:48pm |
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, 8:54pm |
“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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Government declares policy to promote “shared parenting from pregnancy”: for things for their ‘to do’ list
21st June 2010, 4:48pm |
So Nick Clegg has confirmed that the Government intends to “encourage shared parenting from the earliest stage of pregnancy”. A great policy – two thirds of mothers and fathers think parents should share the responsibilities of caring, but only one third of parents report that this actually happens. In other…
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My book has been printed: Baby’s Here! Who Does What?
17th April 2010, 9:57am |
My book is printed! I have put it on Amazon, though the media launch is in early June. I have not just tried to produce something that it interesting to read, but is also a pleasure to hold and leaf through. Lots of colour, pictures and quotations. I’m excited by…
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Images of fathers in caring roles
16th March 2010, 10:01pm |
This is a bronze sculpture of a father and child. As it happens, it is in our garden, though it does not belong to us. The artist, Caroline Mackenzie, asked us to look after it while she was living in India and it has been here ever since. Caroline also…
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Fathers are made invisible in the media - I have the headline and I have the photos!
10th March 2010, 8:04pm |
My last post was about the FAMILIES who protested for better maternity services in London at the weekend. I took lots of photos, particularly of the men. This is the headline in The Independent. A different picture entirely. My family once arranged a family photo and the photographer asked me…
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Two national journalists discover the invisibility of fathers
04th March 2010, 7:28pm |
Two journalists this week have noted that fathers are out of the family picture. E Jane Dickson writes in The Independent about teenage pregnancy and Libby Purves writes in The Times about the role of the real father in the death of Khyra Ishaq. As far as I can recall,…
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- Fatherhood
- domestic violence
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The struggles of single parents in UK
19th January 2010, 11:46am |
I was talking to a divorced single father the other day. I know all the theory about the difficulties that single parents face (I lack the direct experience, being neither divorced nor separated) but being faced by the reality of a single case sometimes has more power than the theory. …
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Spare a thought for step-dad St Joseph this Christmas
24th December 2009, 12:21pm |
Each Christmas I spare a thought for poor Joseph. He would have been a young man, perhaps with an NVQ in carpentry just under his belt. He gets together with the teenager Mary and she becomes pregnant. No-one is going to believe their story – what to expect from feckless…
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- birth
- Personal
- Fatherhood
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