Positive impact of Paternity leave
Articles, stats, and reports to help build the case for increasing paternity and parental leave (with a UK and US focus but relevant for most countries)
Positive impact of Paternity leave
That's exactly it. Research shows 80% of dads said they’d do anything to spend more time with their children. In Quebec, Canada, they ring-fenced properly paid paternity leave a number of years ago, and the uptake from men compared to the rest of Canada went through the roof. And this has so many benefits for society. There was one study by a... See more
How to reduce the motherhood penalty and the gender pay gap ...
Paternity leave can also contribute to a rise in wages for mothers.
Paternity leave bolsters family relationships. Among 6,000 couples followed from when their child was a baby until kindergarten age, couples in which fathers took even just a week or two of paternity leave were 26 percent more likely to stay married, compared with couples in which fathers took no leave. Another study found that when fathers took... See more
Opinion | What Paternity Leave Does for a Father’s Brain (Published 2021)
Paternity leave leads to better outcomes for parents relationships with each other and with their children
A Swedish government study showed that for every month of parental leave taken by the father, the mother’s future annual salary can increase by almost 7%.
Angela Henshall • Four ways paid paternity leave could boost family income
Paternity leave creates a rise in wages for mothers
The benefits of paternity leave begin in the home. Ninety percent of the men we interviewed noticed an improvement in their relationship with their partner. And their partners also felt that the support was critical to forging a stronger bond. “I think I would have resented him if he had been at work and I would have had to do all of this alone,”... See more
Karl Moore • A fresh look at paternity leave: Why the benefits extend beyond the personal
Paternity leave leads to better outcomes for the parents relationships
I would have loved to take more than two weeks off with my kids, but the reality is we just couldn’t afford it. As the main breadwinner, cutting my income down to statutory pay after two weeks would have meant struggling to pay the mortgage. Shared Parental Leave only works if both parents’ employers offer generous pay, which isn’t the case for... See more
Dr Ezgi Kaya • Shared Parental Leave fails to deliver for dads
Leo Montague, a Labour councillor and University of Bath graduate from Milton Keynes, and his wife Flo have three children. Reflecting on his experience, Leo said:
Whilst some employers are offering enhanced pay to mothers and fathers/partners, the enhanced pay provisions for partners generally reflects those of the mothers - for example, full pay for the first four months after the birth. More often than not, the mother is not going to give up leave within the first few months from birth and is therefore... See more
Michael Briggs • A government report on Shared Parental Leave reveals a low take-up by eligible parents
Mothers don’t want to share the early part of their leave (during any enhanced pay) so fathers miss out. Parents shouldn’t be forced to choose!
Studies also show that a father’s increased involvement in baby care can mitigate maternal postpartum-depression outcomes. A study of how paternity leave affects maternal postpartum depression showed that a lack of paternal involvement was a significant predictor of the intensity of depressive symptoms.7 It is important to note that mothers’... See more
Karl Moore • A fresh look at paternity leave: Why the benefits extend beyond the personal
Dads involved in the care of a new infant increase health outcomes for mothers
However, the scheme operates on the basis that mothers must ‘transfer’ their leave entitlement to the father or partner. The transferrable nature of SPL means that, if a mother wants to use most or all of her maternity leave entitlement, there is little or no leave available to the father/second parent – another added complexity to SPL.
Michael Briggs • A government report on Shared Parental Leave reveals a low take-up by eligible parents
It’s not shared parental leave, it’s shared maternity leave!
Opinion | What Paternity Leave Does for a Father’s Brain (Published 2021)
nytimes.com
Similar to HBR article on Parental leave helping Dad’s brains adapt this article references more studies and has more data-esque points