Pres­i­dent of the Fa­thers As­so­ci­a­tion, Rhon­dell Fee­les, is call­ing for ex­tend­ed pa­ter­ni­ty leave, warn­ing that poli­cies geared on­ly to­ward women will con­tin­ue to ex­clude and mar­gin­alise fa­thers.

His com­ments came af­ter for­mer UNC Sen­a­tor Jayan­ti Lutch­me­di­al-Ram­di­al called for long-term sup­port for work­ing moth­ers dur­ing a ser­mon at the Trin­i­ty Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Gas­par­il­lo last week­end.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Fee­les said, “I un­der­stand the dan­ger of re­quest­ing pol­i­cy to be draft­ed in the ben­e­fit of moth­ers, op­posed to hav­ing it draft­ed in the ben­e­fit of par­ents.”