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Opinion: Why include fathers?
By Duncan Fisher, chief executive of the Fatherhood Institute,
Nursery World,
8 May 2008
The UK's think-tank on fatherhood, the Fatherhood Institute, is throwing down the gauntlet to children's services, from the antenatal period onwards, to work in a more father-inclusive way.
In our new research summary Maternal and Infant Health in the Perinatal Period: The Father's Role, we present a mass of evidence showing the profound benefits to all concerned of fathers' active and positive involvement before, during and after their children's birth. And in an accompanying report aimed at the maternity sector, The Dad Deficit: The Missing Piece of the Maternity Jigsaw, we have called for a raft of changes to enable...
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