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What are the secrets? If not, what are the biggest problems? What kinds of changes in the way we work should dads ask for?
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Posted: Thursday, 24 July 2008 - 06:53 PM
Name: Colin
Personally, I think the UK is a disgrace. We all know society is rapidly falling apart. The government only wants to make money yet it claims to want to restablish family values. Two weeks off with £117?? WTF is that? Ive worked 20 years in the railway service, paid massive taxes and NI, and my reward is buttons when I bring a child into the world? It makes me sick! Ive applied for my two weeks paternal leave (like most), but I'll be subbing that with a further month on the sick. They owe me!
Posted: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 - 11:48 PM
Name: Barrington
Tuesday July 8th.
Name: Barrington
im a self employed single father, with twins aged 8, since becoming a single father i have found that i have more time with my childrenand they actually support my work and contribute to me creating work that will show the impact of fathers on children and having a health work life balence.
Posted: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 - 03:13 PM
Name: Simon
I think children deserve to have their dads around and much more available than work currently allows, and therefore flexible workplace and employment policies should be rights not options. However, men need also to take responsibility and loudly demand these rights, as women have before them, and stop seeing the obstacles as 'out there'. So let's hear more from trades unions and in the staff room about how great it is to be a dad and how important we are to children.
Posted: Tuesday, 08 July 2008 - 02:23 PM
Name: Tim
My children are now in their 20s but I would have loved to have received paternity leave as a right when they were born. I think all dads should be given financial support and greater flexibility to balance work and care for their children. More and more dads want it, and so do mums and children.
Posted: Wednesday, 25 June 2008 - 09:58 AM
Name: Duncan
Why don't employers give children a really big present - let all their mums and dads attend all the big events at school, like sports day and the Christmas play. (OK, my children are still at primary, and soon they will be begging me to stay away, let alone making a fool of myself in the parents' race. Mind you, I won it once and nearly died in the process.)