What Fatherhood Programs Must Say About Domestic Violence
As an organization that works daily with fathers — men who are often healing, learning, and rebuilding their relationships — FI sees firsthand that domestic violence is not just a women’s issue or just a criminal justice issue. It’s a family issue. A public health issue. A community issue.
When fatherhood programs give men the language, space, and opportunity to confront domestic violence, they often become some of the strongest advocates for ending it.
It Is Your Demise People Want to See, More Than Your Success
Sometimes, people are more comfortable with your potential than your progress. Success is strange that way. It exposes people. It has a quiet way of shaking loose the truth about who’s really for you and who’s only for the version of you that made them feel comfortable.
NRFC Highlights for 2025, a Year That Put Tools in Dads’ Hands
This year, the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) kept its promise to meet dads where they are, give them what they can use, and keep the lights on — day and night — so help is there when it’s needed. On behalf of the Office of Family Assistance, our team at Fathers Incorporated focused NRFC activities on developing clear guidance, stronger platforms, and real pathways for dads and the people who serve them.
There Is No Such Thing as a Fatherless Child.
One hundred percent of biological children have a father. The question is not if he exists — it’s where. And when we fail to ask “where,” we teach children to believe he doesn’t exist.
Why Rural Fathers Matter: Stories from Appalachia and Beyond
I keep replaying a moment from filming our PSAs with rural dads. The cameras were down, and one of the dads looked over the ridge and said, “I didn’t know I had it in me to be this kind of father.” I know that feeling.
Gentle Warriors Academy Receives $6.5M Grant to Strengthen Fathers, Families, and Communities in Georgia
The grant award expands GWA’s ability to equip fathers, couples, and co-parents with the skills, coaching, and support that build resilient families — improving child well-being, enhancing relationship health, and advancing long-term household stability.
National Forgiveness Day: A Father Reflects on Healing, Redemption, and Second Chances
Forgiveness doesn’t erase pain; it transforms it. For fathers, it is not just a personal act. Forgiveness teaches our children that mistakes are not the end of love and that relationships are not defined by their worst moments, but by the courage to move beyond them.
A Fair Fatherhood, Not a Paper Fatherhood
Fathers Incorporated advocated for legitimation reform at a hearing held by the House Study Committee on Legitimation in Augusta, Georgia. Our role throughout this series of hearings has been two-fold: to bring forward fathers’ lived experience and offer workable solutions.
Child Support Without a Villain: Rebuilding the Narrative and the System (Part II)
Reforming the child support system, which affects millions of families across all 50 states and costs billions of dollars annually to administer, is not a matter of political preference. It’s a matter of social responsibility.
What Kept Me Here: My Story of Suicide, Hope, and Worth
You are not your worst day, your red numbers, your divorce decree, your diagnosis, your court date, or your secret. You are not the sum of your disappointments. You are a father, a mother, a child, a friend, a builder, a teacher, a maker of ordinary miracles. Your name is needed in rooms you haven’t walked into yet.
The Hard Truth About Federal Funding and Philanthropic Giving
Nonprofit leaders must build organizations strong enough, deep enough, and clear enough in purpose to ensure that no funding source — federal, philanthropic, or private — ever becomes the author of their mission.
7 Critical Co-Parenting Tips: Essential Strategies for Fathers
Every father has the potential to be a positive and impactful presence in their child’s life, regardless of the family structure. These seven tips can help you navigate your co-parenting journey with confidence and compassion.
Georgia Legitimation Reform: Fathers Incorporated at the Columbus Hearing
Georgia’s goal should be humane and straightforward. It must ensure that when both parents want to parent, the law says “yes” quickly, safely, and consistently. And when the parents disagree, the law must sort out the “best interest” question without making children strangers to one of the two people they need most.
The Child Support System Needs a Villain (Part 1)
For any system to present itself as powerful, righteous, or heroic, it must have an opposing threat. For child support, that’s not systemic inequity or structural poverty; it’s fathers cast as deadbeats. As absentees. As villains with faulty moral compasses. And once that narrative is set, everything else follows.
Why “Let Me Pick Your Brain” Costs More Than You Know
When someone reduces a lifetime of bruises, breakthroughs, and back-against-the-wall prayers to a free consultation (“Can I pick your brain?”), it’s not a minor oversight. It’s an act of quiet theft, and every theft of value chips away at joy.