A fresh look at paternity leave: Why the benefits extend beyond the personal

Although scheduling some overlap time with your partner is nice for building a family bond, it’s important to use part of your leave to spend time with your baby alone — it’s the best opportunity for brain training. When you’re the only adult at home, you tackle the challenges, so you learn how to solve those daily baby problems.

It depends heavily on the organization, and organizational support. And there’s a lot to do with perceptions of penalties. Fathers perceive that they’re going to be penalized in some way, shape, or form for taking leave. Workplace barriers to taking leave, and especially extended periods of leave, are still a real concern and still present a proble... See more

Paternity leave is also associated with increased engagement in child care during infancy and beyond, improved relationship quality between co-parents, and sharing child care and household tasks more equally both before and after leave.

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The increase in leave days taken by fathers after the introduction of paternity leave in Spain

2024 Study: Shared Parental Leave: Did it work?

The only thing you need for this training program is engaged time with your baby. When you engage, your neural network tweaks itself to respond to your baby more quickly. When your brain responds more quickly the next time your baby needs you, you spend more time engaging with your baby. When you spend more time engaging with your baby, your neural... See more