@HerraBRE could not agree more. I took my half of the available year of parental leave with my daughter (only 2% of fathers do that here in the UK, sadly) and it was the right choice, definitely. I wanted to be doing my share of everything anyway, and it was a great way to start that off. More fathers should be doing it, 2% is way too low (only 50% of couples even know its possible :/)