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I made the difficult decision to cut contact with my dying dad

David Bale2 days ago014 mins

For the first 15 years of my life, we appeared to be the perfect family unit (Picture: Emma Green) Blearily waking up from a nap in January this year, I saw I had over 30 missed calls from my younger sister, Charli. I immediately called her back. That’s when she dropped the bomb: She had…

‘I Was A Shadow Of A Man’: Self-Employed Dads On The Fight For Paternity Pay

David Bale2 months ago012 mins

“I had to make a choice between bonding with my new daughter, or paying the bills,” says Jason Walton, who became a father in early 2020. He was working as a self-employed landscaping subcontractor at the time, which meant there was no paternity pay. His only option was to take a week off work, unpaid,…

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I made the difficult decision to cut contact with my dying dad

‘I Was A Shadow Of A Man’: Self-Employed Dads On The Fight For Paternity Pay