Below is a guest post from Alison McGovern, the Labour Party’s Shadow Minister for Children and Families and MP for Wirral South. In the post, the Shadow Minister outlines various polices Labour would implement to improve family life. This includes improved paternity leave, increased childcare and capped school places. This is the second of several
I am today full of angst. The reason is this news report on the BBC website about UKIP’s attempts to reach out to women. The fact it’s an announcement by UKIP doesn’t help my angst. My real objection, however, is to the idea that any political party would consider childcare a women’s issue.
Mrs Adams and I have the occasional, shall we say, “discussion” when it comes to my approach to dressing the children. I’m very practically minded and will put them in clothes that are rugged or, if I know they will be playing outside, something a little past its best. Mrs Adams doesn’t always agree with
According to a survey carried out for the Skipton Building Society, the majority of Brits consider retirement to be a positive thing. This is all well and good if you follow the traditional work pattern expected of your gender. What, however, if you’re like me and have followed a non-traditional route?
You probably don’t want to think about this too much, but us fathers that actively do childcare are receiving conflicting information about the size of our testicles. Yes, that’s right, looking after your children can apparently affect the size of your balls. Last September, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a report stating
