My paternity leave was wonderful – all fathers should be given the chance | Maxton Walker

I have a close relationship with my daughter; we are buddies. I have no doubt this is down to the three months I took off work when she was a baby

I had a pretty neat comeback when blokes chuckled at me pushing my baby daughter around during the three months of parental leave I took in 2016: just look at one of the Guardian’s most-read articles of all time, the Top five regrets of the dying. In it, a palliative nurse says that every single dying man she cared for admitted he wished he’d spent less time in the office. And yet, as a committee of MPs has reported this week, men with babies at home can’t be dragged away from their desks to spend time with them, despite having been given the right to share parental leave three years ago.

Related: MPs call for 12 weeks of paternity leave to address gender pay gap

One of my fondest memories from my time off is showing my baby daughter the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum

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