4 April 2025, 12:20

By George Gabriel

This Friday, from Stirling in Scotland to St Austell in Cornwall, Labour MPs are meeting up with local dads in their constituencies.

In a pub, a zoo and a train museum, dozens of MPs are getting dads together to hear about the ways fatherhood is changing, the challenges facing fathers today, and the support they need in the face of them.

It couldn’t be more timely. This week marks the anniversary of the introduction of statutory paternity leave in the UK just over twenty years ago. In that time, 4 million babies have benefited from having their dad or non-birthing parent around in the first two weeks of life.

The current cultural conversation over the last few weeks however, has been the Netflix mini-series ‘Adolescence’ which woke the country up to the rise of........

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