Nick Woodall is a writer and consultant on family separation and fatherhood. He is particularly interested in understanding men’s responses to separation and how they conceive and discharge their ongoing parenting role. More...

Listen to Nick on the BBC Radio 4 programme Bringing Up Britain. Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with families, experts and policy makers. Exploring step parenting and 'blended families' from the point of view of parents, children and society. This programme is available via BBC iPlayer.

• The British Family: Is it time for a change? here
• Death of Robert Enke highlights need for new attitudes here
• An Unspoken Wound: How the UK gets it wrong for children affected by family separation here

• Consultation begins on birth registration legislation here
  

• When daddy is just an optional extra here
  
• New JRF report: Understanding fathering: masculinity, diversity and change here
  
• Wefare Reform Bill "disappointing" more
  
• Give new fathers a year's paternity leave, says Clegg read
  
• Portraits of mothers apart from their children... view
  

Mensline Australia
Mensline recognises that men often find it tough to ask for help and so have established counselling and information services that are 'male friendly'. Their website offers plenty of practical self-help tips for dads here