“Fondo paternità”: centinaia di papà marciano per l’indennità di paternità in tutto il Regno Unito | Notizie ITV
https://www.itv.com/news/2026-05-02/fund-fatherhood-hundreds-of-dads-march-for-paternity-pay-across-uk?utm_source=NewsApp&utm_medium=SocialShare
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Should’ve already been done it would be one of the best ways of slashing the gender pay gap and make children’s lives better. Just give men what women get.
Men are doing more and more parenting anyway. This will make things fairer for everyone.
Both men and women agree on this. Long long overdue.
As a mum to be, I am dreading the day my partner has to go back and leave me alone to care for a new baby
This should have been done a long time ago. It benefits both men and women so much
Baffling that men don’t get the same opportunity to spend time with their new born when studies have shown how important it is.
Nothing worse than 3/4 weeks after the birth of your little one having to go back to work full time and miss out on so much
It should be equal for all parents and it should be at least a year.
This is a major hobby horse of mine.
There are plenty of reasons it’s good for the Dads and the kids but people often forget it’s good for women too.
I was on a DEI course at work ages ago and they were talking about how women are often looked to for providing for children when they are back at work. They were talking about Drs trips and the like, and were making the valid point that the fathers should also be doing that.
However, the point I made is that as a company our parental leave policy is effectively saying that it IS the mother’s job to look after the kid for the first 12 months and the father’s job to go to work. We can’t act shocked when that continues after 12 months.
The paternity thing only being two weeks is such an archaic custom. Why, other than companies not wanting to pay? [All](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30858623/) [ current](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6124678/) research proves to the benefit. I couldn’t find one to the contrary.
I don’t like kids and would never have one but it’s obvious that paternity leave needs to be dramatically increased.
I *absolutely* support this but, God, it will take more than a march (although a brilliant endeavour).
Look at the stats for shared parental leave. There needs to be a really radical change in how companies – and men *and women* – think.
Kids need their dads. Any policy that doesn’t facilitate that is shit.
Hey, companies! Be the change you want to see!
We have Shared Parental Leave in this county, up.to 37 weeks of pay.
https://www.gov.uk/shared-parental-leave-and-pay
Genuinely one of the first posts I’ve seen in a long time where it seems like everyone agrees.
Makes me sad when things like this that most people agree on aren’t implemented. Just feels like it’s not really a democracy tbh :/
All makes total sense to do and there is actually no reason why it hasn’t been fixed or improved yet. Especially in the modern age and frequency of C Sections, increasing a mother’s recovery time (during an already tough period that they need to get through).
This article also mentions the current two weeks paid but this is obviously statutory pay, which is less than usual pay for most and employees aren’t made to provide full pay by any means (or close). So those two weeks can also be a loss, let alone not realistically enough time to be a truly supportive and involved father to the newborn and mother.
Given all the taxes people pay on things, government spending on pointless shit (lets not go into their own pay/benefits/expenses) and other available benefits for people, for a multitude of other things, there’s no reason paternity should not be improved.
Roll both maternity and paternity leave into one combined parental leave. Give couples the option to share it between themselves and use an arrangement that best suits their family.
I’ve been saying this for years. This is one of the most obvious forms of discrimination that are still legal, and fixing it would likely reduced pay in equality for women.
My first baby is due at the end of July. Be neat if this comes in before then. Currently only have 2 weeks and then using a weeks holiday for 3 weeks in total
My employer already does this thankfully, full paternity pay the same as maternity for 6 months and then it goes down to like 85% for up to a certain amount of weeks. I really hope they all get it, kids need their dads
I work for Nationwide who has just started 13 weeks paid leave for the birth partner since the start of April. This should be the minimum for everyone in my opinion.
I’m a teacher and only get the statutory minimum of two weeks. I made use of shared parental leave to to take 5 weeks of my wife’s maternity leave. Between that, the two weeks of paternity leave and the Christmas holidays I got a total of 9 weeks with my wife and son before I had to go back to work. I feel very lucky for that time, particularly as my wife had a traumatic delivery resulting in an emergency c section. The big downside of this time, was the complete lack of money, fortunately we had put aside a few thousand pounds to cover the build etc for this period.
Having our first in August, if it wasn’t for my company doing ‘enhanced paternity’, I’d have 0 days off. We can’t afford the mortgage if both of us are out of work. As is I’ll get 1 month at full pay.
I was extremely lucky that my two weeks fell just before a four summer shut down of the education provision I worked in so I effectively had 6 weeks. Without that I dread to think how my wife’s c section recovery would have been as I’d have been gone from 7-6 everyday in a physically taxing and emotionally draining workplace 5 days a week. Paternity rights need to improve massively