Over recent weeks I’ve read a few articles about the pressures of being a working mother. Regrettably I’ve seen very little balance in what I’ve read. I’ve found myself wanting to scream “dads feel exactly the same pressures too ya know.” Yesterday I read this post from Katherine Zaleski who is president of a company
The Daily Mail provided the world with a gem yesterday. The headline was as follows; Decline of the stay at home mother; just one woman in ten is a full time mum. In the way you might expect from this publication, it went on to talk about “stigmatising” stay at home mothers, “economically inactive” women
The other day I appeared on a radio show called Made in Croydon. The show was broadcast on Croydon Radio following the recent publication of my book, A modern father (…and dad blogger), which was produced in partnership with a publisher hailing from that part of London called CronxBooks.
As you may have heard, the Labour party made a pre-election pledge yesterday. If it wins the forthcoming general election, it has vowed to double paternity leave from two to four weeks and increase statutory paternity pay. Presently capped at £138.18, it would increase to a maximum of £260. At this point I have to
If you could do some detailed academic research into fatherhood, what would you study? This was the question I was recently asked by a group of people who know much more about the subject than I do! Give it some thought though. What would you honestly want to look at? Work life balance? Modern working
