The Family Initiative has been tracking and reporting on research on fathers in neonatal care since 2015 on FamilyIncluded.com. It became apparent that some interesting and new ideas were emerging in newly published articles. In response to this, the Family Initiative approached all the authors and proposed a joint effort to report on all the new evidence.
We have since published an article in the Journal of Neonatal Nursing - Fathers in neonatal units: Improving infant health by supporting the baby-father bond and mother-father co-parenting.
This discusses the findings from 50 pieces of research in recent years on fathers in neonatal units.
The principle finding is that understanding and supporting father-infant attachment and supporting co-parenting improves the health of the baby and helps both parents to care for the baby and for each other.
RESEARCH REVIEW
FATHERS IN THE WORKPLACE
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for men and fathers at every stage of their journey.
BENEFITS
Fathers with access to support have better physical and mental health, are more committed to their employer, conduct better relationships at work, are better motivated and are less often absent from work.
High work / family conflict among men has a negative impact on occupational wellbeing and is found more commonly among better-educated fathers; happy employees take 10 times less sick days than unhappy employees.
Overall, supporting fathers will increase the attractiveness and competitiveness of your company
SUPPORT OPTIONS
Webinars deliver topic based presentations (tailored to your priorities) with interactive polling, video sharing and real-time conversation with your employees. Our webinars encourage discussion, keeping attendees thinking, asking questions and commenting.
Workshops take this a step further with the ability to run in-house activities and exercises enabling participants to relfect on their personal situation, assess their progress and priortisie areas for planning and change.
TOPICS AND MATERIAL
We work with you to produce engaging material, tailored to your particular companies’ strategies, policies and HR challenges for men and fathers.
Some ideas and examples of content areas are:
Modern Fatherhood Reality & myths of fatherhood. working, caring and sharing.
Men & Wellbeing Stress, productivity, work-life balance and time-management.
Couple Relationships Co-parenting, conflict and communication.
Children Child development, attachment and the impact of fathers.
Practical Parenting Child behaviour, parenting styles, children & technology and childcare options.
Gender & Diversity Gender roles, family and couple expectations and culture.
New and Expecting Fathers Paternity and parental leave, planning, bonding and attachment.
HR CONSULTANCY
We are able to work with your human resources practitioners to understand crunch points, legal issues and what others are doing to support fathers in the workplace.
This includes best workplace practices and policies for working fathers, improved engagement and career advancement strategies.
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How can we improve the engagement of our working fathers as employees and as parents?
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How can we, as a company, encourage a better home life, improved job performance and career growth for our working fathers
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What information and knowledge do our working fathers require?
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