Britain is not (yet) a dictatorship and couples will be free to decide for themselves how they want to share baby leave

Do babies need their mums more than their dads?

Carolyn Moynihan

The British government is very active on the family front right now. Some of what they are doing is potentially good -- like speeding up adoptions, which are often delayed through efforts of the authorities to “match” children with adoptive parents of the same race, and giving fathers the right to share maternity leave (12 months total).

Some of it is of doubtful benefit -- like requiring “shared parenting” arrangements between divorcing couples. And some of it is downright bad - like pushing same-sex marriage.

Giving fathers as well as mothers the right to leave from their jobs during the first year of a baby’s life sounds good. But the way business minister Jo Swinson talked about it this week struck the wrong note, I think.

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