Shared parental leave skewed against lower earning families, analysis shows

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The government is reviewing the policy but campaigners say the current system is "broken".

Pete Target, from London, took nine weeks off work to look after his son, Jay, when he was nine months old."It was everything I’d hoped for," says Pete, 36."We’re closer than we could have possibly otherwise been.

George Gabriel, co-founder of The Dad Shift says: "There's a big awareness gap, there's a complexity problem and there's a challenge about most men feeling uncomfortable taking leave off the mother of their child.