Tag: fathers
Fatherhood Is a Protective Factor, But Only When Safety Leads
Children have to be the anchor. Not adult pride. Not program numbers. Not public relations. Not whether dad feels validated or mom feels vindicated. The child’s well-being is the outcome. If the child is not safe, a healthy family cannot exist. But when the child is safe and there is a father who can be engaged responsibly, supported properly, and held accountable consistently, then fatherhood can become one of the strongest protective factors in that child’s life.
Dads, Let’s Build Our Daughters’ Confidence Long Before They Call Her “Too Much”
The charge is clear. Guard her voice. Protect her becoming. Reinforce her identity. Challenge her without humiliating her. Love her without requiring perfection.
If we are not intentional, girls will edit themselves before anyone else has to, and culture is quick to condemn and confuse them. We tell girls to be confident, then critique how that looks. We tell them to lead, then call them bossy. We tell them to speak up, then call them loud. We tell them to be bold, then ask them to soften their tone.
But a different future is possible.
Love and Fatherhood: When Will We Allow Fathers to Be Fully Human?
Romantic love is celebrated for how it makes us feel. Fatherhood love is measured by what it asks us to do. It requires endurance when affirmation is absent, consistency when relationships are strained, and restraint when emotions run hot. It is love that shows up in consistency, sacrifice, and presence. And yet, despite its power, fatherhood is rarely centered in public conversations about love.
Many fathers learn early that their love is expected to be practical rather than expressive. Provide. Protect. Pay. Perform. As a result, many men carry deep affection for their children without ever being taught how to articulate it, nurture it, or receive it in return.
How the 2024 Squatters Act Continues to Impact Fathers and Families in Georgia
Housing remains at the top of Georgia’s challenges, especially in Atlanta, where rents rise faster than wages and where fathers with limited income face shrinking options. The Squatters Act didn’t create this reality, but it did create new urgency.
Parenting Is a Team Sport: Why Fathers Incorporated Is Strengthening the Co-Parenting Circle
As we’ve evolved in fatherhood work — listening to the voices of fathers, mothers, partners, and families — we’ve learned that supporting dads alone is only part of the equation.
The next chapter of our journey demands that we strengthen the team surrounding the father, as well. That’s why we are introducing Dad & Company: Building an Effective Co-Parenting Team — a new initiative grounded in the principles of responsible fatherhood but expanded to include everyone who plays a role in raising healthy, resilient children.
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 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.
The First Heartbeat: Why Mothers Matter More Than One Day
We are surrounded by women. Inspired by women. Loved into becoming men by women. Every single one of us here at Fathers Incorporated has been shaped, molded, and held together by the women in our lives—especially our mothers.
Fathers Incorporated Takes Flight with How to Train Your Dragon to Champion Fatherhood
As audiences follow Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless, on their journey toward self-discovery and peace, the film also tells another story—one of growing up, stepping back, and learning how to be present as a parent.
The Life and Legacy of Lawrence Wilbon: A Brother’s Remembrance
Writing this feels impossible, yet necessary, because Lawrence deserves words that honor the man he was, even if they fall short of the mark. This is for you, L. This is The Death of the L.
Fathers Incorporated’s 5th Annual “Home for the Holidads” Program
Fathers Incorporated’s Home for the Holidads fills a critical gap by focusing on the children who are most affected by their parent’s absence.
The quiet after the storm
The night before, I stayed up, switching between networks, trying to listen not just to the results but to the stories behind them. Numbers don’t lie, they say.
The World Keeps Telling Us Black Men and Boys Are Throwaways: I’m Starting to Believe We Are
There’s a dangerous and persistent narrative in society today that Black men and boys are disposable—throwaways.
Black Dads and Economic Empowerment: A Pathway to Thriving, Not Just Surviving
Vice President Harris Releases Opportunity Agenda for Black Men: A Step Toward Economic Empowerment, but What About Black Fathers?
Stop Shaming Black Men and Address the Real Barriers to Voting and Fatherhood
Vice President Harris’s Opportunity Agenda is the latest of many attempts to address some of these challenges and focus on economic opportunities for Black men.