Tag: family empowerment

The Only Magic in This Atlanta Hawks–Magic City Collaboration Is the Disappearance of Morality

From a programmatic perspective at Fathers Incorporated, we spend our days encouraging fathers to model respect for women, to support mothers, and to raise children who understand the value of dignity and healthy relationships. 

This partnership pushes against that work, and the contradiction deserves to be named.

Multiple generations of a Black family gathering around a table for a celebration

Our Stories, Our Strength: Honoring Family Narratives 

Inspired by Family Stories Month, I’ll start where I am. I’ll tell my children what I know, what I’ve learned, and what I still hope to understand. I will remember the past and author the present — not just by celebrating what we’ve inherited, but by creating what we want to leave behind.

Our stories are our strength. Our storytelling is our legacy. And our legacy begins today.

close-up of a child smiling as she's hugged by a parent

Traditional and Cultural Adoptions: Critical Differences — and the Need for Both

Adoption, in its truest sense, has never been about legality alone. In many communities, it has always been about love, obligation, and survival. Long before there were state agencies or social service departments, there was a cultural system — neighbors taking in children after tragedy, grandparents raising grandchildren, aunts and uncles becoming stand-in parents when life took unexpected turns.

To truly understand adoption in America, and to strengthen the systems that govern it, we must hold space for both traditional and cultural adoption.