Tag: paternal health
Sickle Cell Awareness Day: Why Fathers Need to Know What Is in Their Blood
Fatherhood is more than being present after a child arrives. It’s preparing, protecting, learning, and leading. Sickle cell awareness gives fathers a sacred opportunity to do all four.
Our children deserve a future where sickle cell is understood, treated with urgency, and one day cured. Until that day comes, let us make sure no father is left uninformed, no family is left unsupported, and no child is left carrying pain in silence.
Paternal Mortality Is a Family Health Crisis. Georgia’s Legitimation Law Makes It Worse.
The argument against Georgia’s legitimation structure has often been framed around access: Fathers need the ability to parent, visit, make decisions, and participate. That remains true. But a recent JAMA Pediatrics paper forces us to add another layer.
In the event of paternal death, legitimation is a child protection issue. It’s about what remains legally intact when a father is no longer alive to argue, petition, explain, prove, or correct the record.
A child shouldn’t have to lose a father twice: once to death and a second time to an outdated law.