Dr Patrick Nolan: Reducing family breakdown requires fairer incentives within families
Dr Patrick Nolan is Chief Economist of Reform . Earlier this week Reform issued a new report, Productive parents , on Britain’s support for families with new children. The report concluded that these arrangements, especially maternity pay and leave, are unfair, anti-dad and bad for business. The study showed that fathers are treated as an irrelevance and that government maternity pay is more generous for rich mothers than poor. This means that current arrangements for parental leave are sho