Still, my husband was able to experience caring for our son full time while I worked; they bonded in a way that is hardly possible for working fathers in the United States,
where paid paternity leave is rare.
Researchers in countries
where paid paternity and parental leave are readily available have found that there is a great benefit to having men take more time off when their children are born in order to develop their parenting skills and be better prepared to accept the responsibility that facilitates shared parenting.
Not exact matches
Where possible, these qualifying criteria will mirror the criteria for existing entitlements such as maternity
pay and allowance and
paternity pay and leave so that families will be able to easily work out their entitlement.
Some fathers take Annual Leave instead of, or as well as,
paternity / parental leave, particularly
where that is not available or is low
paid.
Some countries are moving in the same direction as Sweden,
where parents receive 14 weeks of maternity leave and 10 days of
paternity leave at about 80 — 90 %
pay.
Ordinary Statutory
Paternity Pay will be renamed Statutory Paternity Pay and Additional Paternity Leave and pay is to be abolished, but will continue to exist where the expected due date is on or before the week ending 4 April 20
Pay will be renamed Statutory
Paternity Pay and Additional Paternity Leave and pay is to be abolished, but will continue to exist where the expected due date is on or before the week ending 4 April 20
Pay and Additional
Paternity Leave and
pay is to be abolished, but will continue to exist where the expected due date is on or before the week ending 4 April 20
pay is to be abolished, but will continue to exist
where the expected due date is on or before the week ending 4 April 2015.
Additional
paternity leave and
pay will also be available to adopters
where there is an entitlement to statutory adoption leave and
pay.