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When Supporting a Father Means Making Room for Him to Lead

Mothers and grandmothers often carry a great deal of responsibility within families. They may step in to protect children, solve problems, provide stability, and make sure nothing is overlooked. Their involvement is usually rooted in love and concern. However, even well-intentioned support can become interference when it doesn’t leave room for a father to develop his own parenting identity.

Our first “& Co” participant began to recognize the ways she had inadvertently blocked her son from becoming the best father he could be.

Before Their Names Were Called, Their Fathers Had Already Shown Up

The NBA called 30 names in the first round. Yet before Commissioner Silver called any of them, fathers had been calling those young men capable. They’d called them disciplined. They’d called them back to the gym. They’d called them higher than their doubts. They’d called them toward futures that existed first in the imagination of someone who loved them.

The 2026 NBA Draft didn’t suddenly create positive images of Black fatherhood. Those fathers had been there all along, making sacrifices beyond the camera’s reach.

And for one night, the frame finally became wide enough for America to see them.

Why the Marriage Question Is Also a Fatherhood Question

Marriage and fatherhood can’t be treated as competing conversations. Marriage asks how men and women build a stable union. Responsible fatherhood asks how men remain accountable, nurturing, protective, emotionally present, and economically responsible toward their children.

When these commitments exist inside a healthy marriage, they reinforce one another. A man isn’t simply living with the mother of his children. He has made a public covenant to share the labor, sacrifice, responsibility, and future of family life.

Fatherhood Advocacy Isn’t About Winning Against Mothers. It’s About Refusing to Lose Children.

The future of the fatherhood movement must be disciplined, compassionate, research-informed, and child-centered. It must be brave enough to challenge courts, child support systems, child welfare agencies, legislatures, and even fatherhood programs themselves.

The measure of our fatherhood advocacy won’t be how loudly we defend fatherhood, but how effectively we build systems in which children no longer have to lose a parent for adults to feel that justice has been served.

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

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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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“This is what the kids are doing these days”. Have you ever heard that line. Well even with my resistance to one more social media platform, my […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 6, 2015

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I’m excited about our upcoming HONORABLE MAN RALLY: In celebration of Black Fathers in Washington, DC (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Fathers Incorporated / October 6, 2015

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I woke up this morning wondering if anybody else worried about the conditions of fathers in general, but more specifically; Black Fathers. We’re coming up on the […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 6, 2015

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This is our week to honor Black Fathers.

Fathers Incorporated / October 5, 2015

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MMM One Week Away

It’s been 20 years since I attended the first Million Man March and a lot has transpired in my life since. I’m been working to elevate the […]

Fathers Incorporated / October 5, 2015

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