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Not content to just go back to his desk and keep his head down, Levs, 42, has become a spokesperson for involved dads and a positive crusader for parents’ rights in a country where just 14 percent of companies offer paid leave and one-third of dads have no access to child-care leave at all. The Post talked to him about family leave, the new American dad, and his new book…
Levs has been meeting with staff on Capitol Hill to drum up support for the FAMILY Act, which involves small shared contributions from workers and employers to provide income for people during family or medical leave.
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‘The vast majority of men say they prioritize their families over work, but the workplace is itself caught in a vicious cycle. The men who do not prioritize their family, they are often in charge of the company,’ says Josh Levs.
Announcement: Josh is coordinating with the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation to make paid family leave a key issue in the nation’s first presidential primary.
Across the U.S., families are struggling because a basic human right is missing: the chance for a newborn baby to have a parent at home who does not have to worry about putting food on the table.
Josh Levs makes a case for paid paternity leave as a gender equality issue in his new book All In.
Particularly commendable is that the book also breaks a number of taboos, from having a fulfilling sex life when both parents are working, to providing a kind of checklist for men of looking after their body and mind.
Inspired by his own fight for paternity leave, (Levs) explores the shifts in policy and pop culture, including an end to the hapless dad figure, that have to take place before fathers can have work/life balance too.
With the expectation of being good workers, men wind up being ‘dads in the shadows,’ in the phrasing of Josh Levs.
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Levs brings together and discusses the most up-to-date research on fatherhood while also proposing practical and policy solutions.
In ‘All In,’ Levs covers every aspect of the issue. He includes every category of dad you can think of, from the single dad and the custody-battling dad, to the military dad and the imprisoned dad. He also has suggestions for workaholic dads seeking more balance in their lives. Levs lays out solid ideas for putting better policies in place; he even suggests a way to create a paid family leave by lowering taxes.
Are we really so far behind that we need science to tell us that men are absolutely capable of taking care of children? Josh Levs asks that question in his new book, ‘All In.’
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