... He, however, sees responsibilities with two different meanings. We will concentrate on his first interpretation where parental responsibility is "...taking care of the child, providing for his education, maintenance, legal representation and the administration of his property". Father's can take three distinct forms, the married father who enjoys equal parental responsibility with the mother, the divorced or separated father who still retains parental responsibility but loses much of the control and the unmarried father who only gains parental responsibility by agreement or a court order. These "rights and duties" of parental responsibility are confered by the Children Act. It may be, however, not the Children Acts but the Child Support Act that is increasing the number of fathers who seek parental responsibility or become actively involved with the child. There is a notion that those fathers either separated or unmarried have to provide financially for their children so they should ...

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