The Fatherhood Institute

• Government fails Father’s Day test by dodging Gender Pay Gap reform June 14, 2018
  Government rejection today of an influential Parliamentary Select Committee plan to reform UK parenting leave leaves the Gender Pay Gap unchallenged and fathers out in the cold, says think-tank This Father’s Day the Fatherhood Institute calls on the UK Government to rethink its family policies, which betray families by failing to support fathers’ caring – […]
• Blog: Why maternity services must modernise and take fathers seriously June 12, 2018
  Jeremy Davies writes (this blog first appeared on Huffington Post UK): OK, we get it. Maternity services: the clue’s in the name. 
• Contemporary Fathers in the UK: our review of research on British dads June 11, 2018
  The Fatherhood Institute, supported by the Nuffield Foundation, has been compiling (and continues to compile) a literature library of mainly academic articles, book chapters and reports about fathers and fatherhood in the UK.  
• NHS fails new mums by ignoring dads, says major FI study June 10, 2018
  The NHS is failing to provide the ‘family-centred’ antenatal, maternity or health visitor services required by its own rules and desired by parents, according to a large survey of new fathers, published today. 
• How well do UK maternity services support new dads? May 8, 2018
  In Britain, most fathers-to-be go with their partner to routine antenatal appointments and ultrasound scans, and are there for the births of their children.