By Courtney • 13 years ago

Thank You Thursdays: Father’s day edition

Thank you for resigning from the male-only business club in town when I was just a little girl. I remember reading your resignation letter and feeling very special when you mentioned that you wouldn’t be a part of an institution that would one day accept your son, but not your daughter.
Thank you for braiding my hair before I went to bed every night so it wouldn’t get snarly.
Thank you for having the loudest laugh in the universe.
Thank you for telling me the truth about your childhood and our family legacy of mental illness.
Thank you for bravely going to therapy and dealing with your shit so you could be an amazing father.
Thank you for all of our long talks about Buddhism, suffering, and liberation.
Thank you for convincing Jere that she’d be an incredible mom, which she is.
Thank you for teaching me about goal-setting and financial literacy from the time I was very young.
Thank you for modeling non-toxic masculinity for my brother all of these years. He turned out awesome, didn’t he?
Thank you for exaggerating whenever you tell people about me, even if it’s totally embarrassing.
Thank you for raising me with the expectation of absolute respect and brave vulnerability and honesty within my relationships with men.
Thank you for being my pops.

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By Chloe Angyal • @chloeangyal • 11 years ago

Australia to implement paid paternal leave next year

Yesterday, Australian Minister for Families, Community Services, and Indigenous Reform Jenny Macklin made a big announcement: starting in 2013, the Australian government will be providing paid paternal leave so that new fathers can take more time off from work to take care of their kids.

The scheme is clearly designed to make it more culturally normal, as well as more economically feasible, for men to take time away from work.

At the Mummy Blog Mamma Mia, Macklin wrote:

Because we understood how important that time with your newborn is, two years ago our Government introduced Australia’s first national paid parental leave scheme.

Since then, more than 200,000 families, many of them people who never before got any

Yesterday, Australian Minister for Families, Community Services, and Indigenous Reform Jenny Macklin made a big announcement: starting in 2013, the Australian government will be providing paid paternal leave so that new fathers can take more time off ...