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• Thoughts on the future of gender equality (1)

  05th September 2009, 1:40pm |

  Over the next few weeks I will reflect on the future of the campaign to achieve equal pay for men and women and I want to relate this directly to the needs of children.  Unequal pay is not good for children - it restricts how their parents can look after…

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• I love the book, The Sixty Minute Father, by Rob Parsons!

  07th August 2009, 8:13am |

  “What really upsets me are those fathers who have chosen not to be with their children.”  Janice, aged 17, who lost her father when she was 8. Hodder is publishing a new edition of The Sixty Minute Father by Rob Parsons, making this the longest lasting book on fatherhood -…

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• Why does sharing of the care of infants create feelings of guilt and inadequacy for mums and dads?

  03rd August 2009, 7:30am |

  Is the key challenge of sharing the care of children in fact stepping out of one’s culturally determined earning or caring role rather than the challenges of the new role? The Daily Mail is still at it, with yet more excellent articles about motherhood, fatherhood and family life (see my…

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• Nick Clegg gives speech on family and fatherhood

  27th July 2009, 9:19am |

  Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, gave a speech on the family on 8 July at Relate. He said that it was important to support family relationships of all kinds and in all family formations.  He talked about the need at the present time to support relationships under stress…

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• Interesting on-line conversation about parental separation and child poverty

  20th July 2009, 8:35pm |

  My last blog is the first blog of mine that has stimulated discussion on-line, with particularly insightful comment by Karen Woodall who leads the Centre for Separated Families.  I am so excited about this that all I want to do in my blog this week is recommend that people read…

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• Fathers are a resource in the fight to end child poverty (again)

  10th July 2009, 7:03pm |

  In an earlier blog, Fathers are a resource in the fight to end child poverty, I wrote an open letter to the Minister for Children.  I made three points:

  how fathers work is important to children in poverty; employment offices should engage with men with caring responsibilities as they do…

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• We need time to see our children growing up

  05th July 2009, 9:31am |

  I recently blogged about the need to find the space and time simply to contemplate the series of precious and never-returning moments of our children growing up.  Like this morning being chased around the kitchen by my daughter brandishing a vacuum cleaner. This is a favourite poem of mine, which…

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• Daily Mail top of the pops in its coverage of fatherhood this month

  27th June 2009, 7:00pm |

  In the last month, the Daily Mail has run five particularly good pieces on modern fatherhood - well informed, sympathetic, challenging of stereotypes.  Taken together, they represent a remarkable portrait of fatherhood today.  I take my hat off to the Daily Mail! Greg Williams (Exhausted, guilt-ridden, torn between career and…

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