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A Father’s Second Chance Is Often A Child’s First Real Chance

“Second Chance Month” can’t be reduced to conversations about individual redemption alone. We also need to talk about family restoration. A father’s second chance is often a child’s first real chance to recover stability, structure, and hope.

This is where the country must be more honest with itself.

We say we believe in fatherhood. We tell men to be present, provide, protect, lead, and be accountable. Then many of those same men return home from incarceration to a wall of barriers that make accountability harder. We call it reentry, but for many men it feels more like rejection.