Left to right: Matt, Ron and NathanHundreds of pram-pushing fathers and their partners are set to take to the streets of London, Leeds, Manchester and Nottingham to bang the drum for better paternity leave.
Currently, many UK dads are entitled to just two weeks off, as standard, after the birth of their child – but plenty of parents agree this isn’t good enough.
Ron Mutira, a father-of-two from Leeds, is attending the Push For Paternity march on Saturday 2 May because “paternity leave is a necessity, not a luxury”.
His wife underwent an emergency caesarean section last month and was told to take six weeks of bed rest to recover.
“But because I’d been at my job for less than a year, I wasn’t ent...
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