Dad keeps baby at home!

They crossed more and more often, a street corner or in a park at the supermarket or post office: they are the dads at home! With the holidays that have been created for them, dads new generation can now focus on their children. But to live this role of father at home, keep baby at home should be a choice and a lifestyle fully paid.

Leave for fathers and the steps to take
Since January 2002, young fathers are eligible for paternity leave. Its length is eleven consecutive days, ie Saturdays, Sundays and holidays are counted in, and must be taken within four months after birth. It is extended to eighteen days for multiple births.

Paternity leave can be combined with the statutory three days allowed by the employer for the birth, bringing the total to 14 days leave (21 days for twins or triplets).

If paternity leave was pleased with the dad and wants to continue to keep her child, it may take a parental leave. It is awarded to employees who have at least one year of tenure in their company when the baby is born and can begin at any time before three years of the child.

Its duration is one year, renewable twice, and can last for three years ... ideal for keeping its small end until its entry into kindergarten! The employment contract is suspended, meaning that the father no longer receives a salary, but he is assured of finding the position or equivalent for the same pay at the end of the leave.

To qualify for leave, the father must talk in advance to his employer, then send him a registered letter with acknowledgment of receipt at least one month before the date of commencement of leave, including dates of beginning and end.

Dad at home: a choice primarily

For this new role is well lived, the young father must keep baby by choice, not compulsion. Even though more and more couples choose this option, the environment can be very critical of China's "working woman, dad who stays at home" ... attitudes still need to evolve!

For dads at home does not feel aggrieved in their role as head of household, the decision must take care of babies come from a genuine desire to benefit her child. This is true of some fathers who, unlike their wives did not like their work, and who see in their new role as a change of life blessed.

Dads angels

Many dads are ecstatic to be able to spend as much time with their baby. It gives them the opportunity to create a strong bond with their child and to challenge the father's image not available enough to replace it with the father present and complicit. They are likely to proclaim their pride and happiness to care for their little one!