The Fatherhood Institute

• Help us tell the story of dads and co-parenting during the Covid-19 crisis March 24, 2020
  Covid-19 is throwing up challenges for all sorts of families across the UK, including families where children usually move between households; families in economic hardship; and even ‘better off’, intact families spending more time together in a confined space than they are used to! 
• Does Boris Johnson want to be taken seriously as a father? If so… March 4, 2020
  Photo of Boris Johnson waxwork at Mme Tussaud’s, by Dominic Lipinski for Press Association ….yes of course the Prime Minister should take paternity leave when his partner Carrie Symonds gives birth to their baby this summer. 
• Dads using a maternity ward ‘like a hotel’: our response January 27, 2020
  We have been asked to comment on this story about claims that fathers are using an Edinburgh maternity ward ‘like a hotel’. 
• 100 years to gender parity: the case for parenting leave reform December 18, 2019
  At the current rate of progress it will take 99.5 years to close the global gender pay gap, according to a new report from The World Economic Forum – which places the UK 21st (down six places since last year) in the world gender equality league table. 
• New guide leads the way on recruitment of men into early years November 19, 2019
  Our groundbreaking male recruitment guide for the UK early years education sector – available for free to all members of the MITEY (Men In The Early Years) network – is out today (International Men’s Day, 19 November).