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icon - work largeBecome a dad and you’ll probably never look at work in the same way again.

Where once you might have taken chances, now your primary focus is more likely to be about security and finding a position that pays well.

That shouldn’t mean that job satisfaction goes out the window. You need a career that makes you happy too – after all, you want to show your child that work can be a good thing.

As a father and a working man with dependants, you do get a few breaks. You’re entitled to paternity leave and you also have different rights within the workplace. This section will explain what those entitlements are.

We’ve also got advice on maintaining your work life balance and coping with the extra demands on your time. There are alternatives to working nine to five…

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Mums, dads and time: who does what?

In 2005, 6500 household's time diaries were analysed to try to find out how people spent their days in the week and at the weekend. A report by the Equal Opportunities Commission (now merged with the EHRC) sets out how men and women divide their time between paid and unpaid work, childcare and leisure time.

 

Home Front: what do mums and dads need to make life work?

Over the next few months Dad Info and Mumsnet are working together to create a national debate about how parents organise work and caring for children. The project is called The Home Front: what do mums and dads need to make life work?

Can you share work and kids in the UK?

Working dadSo you want to share the earning and looking after the kids with your partner? So do thousands of others - but few manage it, because the dice are stacked against you. Dad Info takes a look at the difficulties you might encounter.

 

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