What two gay dads can teach fathers about parenting
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Even though gender equality has come a long way at work, when it comes to parenting the mother is still viewed as the primary caregiver. But does it have to be this way? Paul Morgan-Bentley talks about his new book The Equal Parent in which he draws on his own experience as a father, and asks what can be done to share the load.
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| 0:57.9 | For couples with young children, dividing up the parental load can be tricky. |
| 1:12.4 | Whose turn is it to change the nappy? |
| 1:14.3 | Who's getting out of bed when the baby cries? |
| 1:17.2 | And perhaps, hardest of all, who is going to put their career on hold to take care of |
| 1:21.4 | the kids, most of the time the answer is the same, it's mum. |
| 1:31.5 | Almost half of non-working mothers say they would prefer to work if they could arrange suitable |
| 1:38.7 | childcare. |
| 1:39.7 | For many women, a career break becomes a career end. |
| 1:47.4 | In the new Chancellor's Spring Budget, Jeremy Hunt acknowledged that the burden falls |
| 1:51.8 | disproportionately on women and announced plans to cut childcare costs. |
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