done

Done!

done - some of the answers had to be best of a bad bunch though as they just weren't quite appliable.

Done. There needs to be a question about how many hours are worked by any part-time employed parent and what % of their earnings go on childcare. In our case around 80%.

Done

Hi all

Thanks so much to everyone who has taken time to complete the survey - apologies to those who found it a little long, we started with 10 questions and it just kept growing Despite the length we've obviously made some omissions and inevitably missed some things out that some of you would rather have in. Thanks for the feedback on this - it's always useful - though we obviously can't change the questions now. You can though start a thread in the Home front section if you feel there's an area that we've either missed out, or fudged in some way - that's what this area of Talk is for.

As for some of the direct queries (constructive criticism we prefer to call it ):

As Ann said if there's a question you'd rather not answer eg income range feel free to miss it out.

On the self-employment side, we do say at the beginning of that section
"For the next section by employment we include self-employment" so hopefully that should cover you - though again if this is an area that you feel warrants more discussion, it would make a great new thread.

For Rafi - we tried to make sure that the questions were applicable to same sex partnerships, but how much leave fathers took as opposed to mothers after birth was one of the areas the EHRC were particularly keen to find out, and we thought if we included same sex partners in this question the results might be skewed. We would though be interested to know how maternity/paternity leave works in practice so please feel free to start a thread about this in this section as again it might help the EHRC shape their policy suggestions.

We tried hard to make the survey as inclusive as possible, but as this particular part of the debate is about how parents share the load, it is directed at those who have a partner - that's why there's no box for no partner as we say in the intro it's for folks with a partner. The overall debate however - despite the title - is about how all parents make life work and we'd love to hear the views of single parents too. We've started a thread here so hope you'll add your views

Best

MNHQ

dq been looking out for you on here - how's things?

done blimey it made me realise how much i do all the kid's stuff on my own

done but some answered not exactly to my surcumstances but to the closest that there was to choose from.

Custy.. I did the same with argument-causes..think how dull it would be if you only ever argued about the same old thing...