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The fights for more equal sharing of parenting responsibilities is on13th 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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I’m back!
03rd February 2012, 1:41pm |
After a period off-line, I’m back, with a whole new set of ideas about how to improve support for families. I have rejuvenated my blog (lots of pictures of leaping children!) and I have found a fantastic new foundation for my work at Connect Assist, led by Patrick Nash, the…
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“Women’s liberation lies in liberating men”
26th June 2010, 12:20pm |
Katrin Bennhold, correspondent for the International Herald Tribune in Paris, has written an unusually good piece, Women’s liberation lies in liberating men. Motherhood still remains the barrier to gender equality…..The only thing that can level the playing field at work is a level playing field at home. And that requires…
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- gender equality
- Gender
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Marriage is a women’s issue (according to the UK media)
01st May 2010, 8:05pm |
The other day The Independent published an article on marriage, A taxing problem for single-issue campaigners. Sarah Cassidy set up a “mums’ panel” from Mumsnet to consider the issues and interviewed a number of women (and only women). The only men she referred to were the political leaders (all men,…
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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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Why can a teenage boy say a puppy is adorable in front of his friends but not say the same about a human baby?
13th January 2010, 7:46am |
One of the first things I noticed when going out with our new puppy, Lottie, is how people respond to her just like they do to a baby. But with one big difference – boys and men respond just as much as girls and women. I was quite taken aback…
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- gender equality
- Gender
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