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The Fatherhood Dividend: What Happens When Fathers Are Included

When fathers are included, children gain. When children gain, families strengthen. When families strengthen, communities rise.

That’s the “fatherhood dividend” America can no longer afford to overlook.

It’s the measurable, human return that comes when fathers are recognized not as secondary parents but as essential contributors to child development, family stability, and community well-being.

The Health of Fathers Is the Health of Families

For too long, public discussions about family health have treated fathers as secondary participants rather than essential contributors — even though decades of research demonstrate that the well-being of fathers has a direct impact on the well-being of children.

The lesson is clear: Healthy fathers contribute to healthy families.

The conversation about family well-being must become more inclusive. Supporting mothers and children remains essential. Supporting fathers is essential, too. The health of fathers isn’t separate from the health of families. It’s inseparable from it.

When Fathers Die Too Soon

We’ve built an entire public conversation around maternal health, maternal mortality, postpartum depression, and the challenges mothers face after childbirth. We should. These conversations have saved lives.

But there’s another conversation that barely exists: What happens when the father dies? Not years later. Not after retirement. Not after children become adults. What happens when a father dies while his children are still learning to walk, talk, and say the word “Daddy”?

That question remains one of the least explored realities in American family life.

Hip-Hop Has Been Telling Us About Fatherhood All Along

The music has already warned us what happens when a man’s pain goes unprocessed. It becomes rage, distance, and addiction. It becomes violence and emotional numbness. It becomes another generation of children trying to decode the silence of men who love them but don’t know how to reach them.

Still, I don’t hear hip-hop’s fatherhood story as hopeless. I hear it as unfinished.

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Star Wars: A Fatherhood Story Who can forget the line, “Luke, I Am Your Father.” It sent shockwaves through my bones as I literally said, “nooooooooooooooooo.” 38 years later, […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 20, 2015

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For men in prison, child support becomes a crushing debt

We keep having this conversation…yet the fatherhood field hasn’t consistently done the work to ensure that the policies reflect the need of fathers. As a result this […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 19, 2015

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Cyberbullying and a Fathers Role Today I attended a workshop on cyberbullying. It’s not the first time I’ve attended one of these kinds of workshops and they […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 18, 2015

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Today my wife and I celebrate 5 years of marriage. It’s an accomplishment! It’s often ironic for me because I often notice that the men I work […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 17, 2015

For You Dad Kenneth Braswell Raising Boys

How Many Times Should I Let My Son Get Hit In the Face with the Ball?

The other day I attended my 6 year old son’s basketball ball. Well basketball game might be a loose description for 10 little boys running from one […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 17, 2015

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Judge Greg Mathis Joins Fatherhood Intitiative, Reflects on Michael Brown and Ferguson

tbt blog post… Judge Greg Mathis Joins Fatherhood Intitiative, Reflects on Michael Brown and Ferguson

Fathers Incorporated / October 16, 2015

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While there are many things to which I am pleased regarding the Million Man March; there is one thing that still irks me. In fact pisses me […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 16, 2015

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I had a chance to see In My Fathers House for the fifth time last night in Morrow, Ga. It’s amazing how a film can have the […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 14, 2015

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Navagating Busyness for Working Dads and… – Fathers Incorporated | Facebook

Fathers Incorporated / October 14, 2015

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This is my friend and brother Willie Knighten. Today I am inspired by his story and reminded that your life is designed to show God’s Glory and […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 14, 2015

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This is why so many people have a problem with change. For so many people the tragedy of their story has become their identity rather than the […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 13, 2015

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Work and Rest

Had a long week of work and today I just wanted to do nothing. However while quiet was my highlight…being home was a highlight for my 6 […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 13, 2015

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Keep working until you no longer have to introduce yourself Rev. Bronner

Fathers Incorporated / October 12, 2015

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Written by Kenneth Braswell, he is the Executive Director of Fathers Incorporated in Atlanta, Ga. He is also working with both the National Committee and the Atlanta […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 12, 2015

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Executive Director of Fathers Incorporated speaks about the Million Man March and the Honorable Man Campaign (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Fathers Incorporated / October 12, 2015

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