Tag: homeless

When a Baby Has No Stable Place to Sleep, Fatherhood Has a Housing Problem

For too long, the public response to vulnerable families has imagined family stabilization without fully imagining the father. We build family services systems exclusively around mothers and babies, and then wonder why fathers remain peripheral. 

It’s time to ask about dad, make room for dad, serve dad, and equip dad. It’s time for public policy to reflect the fact that when a father is stabilized, the child is often better stabilized, too.