The fatherhood think tank raised the concerns after the government’s poverty tsar Frank Field proposed that young people take a GCSE in parenting in order to avoid further generations of disadvantage.
But Fiona McAllister, Fatherhood Institute’s policy officer, claimed that much of the information around parenting in the current PSHE curriculum is female-centred.
"We urge that any proposal to create a GCSE in parenting includes information about the importance of fathers in their children’s lives and the capacity for boys to become nurturing men, and enables both boys and girls to reflect on their own experiences of being fathered," she said.
McAllister also dismissed comments that Field made, in a piece for the Daily Mail, claiming that the number of "feckless, absent fathers" and "toe-rag parents" in Britain has become a "social catastrophe".
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