Worcester and Droitwich Branch
Mancave
The benefits of being a stay-athome dad
Father-of -wo Stephen takes an
incisive and thoughtful look at fatherhood today, and dishes the dirty
nappies on his year-long stint as a stay
at-home dad
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“Parents of babies due on or after 5th April 2015 will finally be
allowed to share statutory and paid parental leave more or
less equally. There has a been a lot of hand-wringing about
how this will work in practice
“I don‟t like the term
(whether or not most employers will
„taking time off work‟ – extend the same benefits to men that
child-rearing is unques- women currently receive, or whether
tionably work”
they will cut back on providing all but
statutory pay, for example), but the
change is unquestionably a move in
the right direction – not just for women but for men (and the
non-childbearing halves of same-sex couples) too.
We men are often criticised for not pulling our weight with
childcare, but the tru Ѡ