Tag: masculinity
What Active Fatherhood Teaches Boys and Girls About Masculinity
When fathers are engaged, boys are more likely to see nurturing as masculine, discipline as loving, and vulnerability as compatible with strength. Girls are more likely to see men as emotionally accessible and ethically grounded, not distant or transactional.
When boys lack healthy models of masculinity, the consequences ripple outward, affecting peer relationships, classroom dynamics, and future partnerships. When girls internalize distorted or limited images of men, that too shapes social cohesion and trust.
The Current Conversation on Mentorship for Boys Excludes Responsible Fatherhood
Any national conversation about boys and men that does not center fatherhood risks misdiagnosing the problem and misdirecting the response.
Framing mentorship as a corrective for father absence must be handled with care. When mentoring programs are positioned as replacements for fathers rather than complements to parental involvement, they unintentionally reinforce a deficit narrative.
The Missing Conversation Between Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Public Health
For nearly two decades, we’ve worked to reframe fatherhood not as a social category separate from public and community health but as its foundation. When fathers thrive, families thrive, and when families thrive, entire neighborhoods stabilize.
We can’t separate men’s health from fatherhood any more than we can separate a heartbeat from a body. The emotional, physical, and spiritual wellness of men is a public health issue. It influences how children are raised, how relationships survive, and how communities heal.
The Power to Release: What Forgiveness Teaches Us About Manhood
Forgiveness isn’t about getting the other person to change. It’s about not letting what they did change you anymore. It’s an act of liberation. It’s an act of maturity. And it’s an invitation to healing.
Left Behind No More: A Call to Action for Our Boys, Our Fathers, and Our Future
The data is in, and the alarm has sounded: Society is leaving our boys behind. So how can we help them thrive? Re-engaging fathers may be the single most powerful strategy we have.
The Greatest Gift: Why Empathy Belongs at the Heart of Father’s Day
This Father’s Day, let’s offer something more enduring than a card or a steak dinner. Let’s offer compassion. Let’s challenge ourselves to listen more closely. To believe more deeply. To hold space for the stories that don’t get shared on social media.
The Blueprint: What Fatherhood Teaches Us About Manhood
We talk a lot about masculinity, especially in the context of harm. “Toxic masculinity” gets tossed around like it’s synonymous with manhood itself. But let me say this plainly: Masculinity is not toxic. Masculinity is powerful. Masculinity, at its best, is courageous, accountable, nurturing, and deeply spiritual.
You Can Add “Feet” to the List of New Fatherhood: 3 Reasons Why!
I heard it all before, have even said it; “I don’t want anybody touching my feet,” “feet are made for walking, not touching,” “I wouldn’t be caught […]