Tag: responsible fatherhood
A Dad’s First Big Assignment: Supporting Mom Through Pregnancy, Delivery, and Postpartum
When fathers learn, plan, advocate, and rest with intention, moms recover better, babies thrive, and the whole house breathes easier.
Show up. Ask questions. Carry the load you can carry. Guard the rest and watch the signs. Put the helplines in your phone. And remember, your baby doesn’t need a perfect dad — your baby needs you, present and prepared.
A Responsible Fatherhood Field Response to the New Executive Order on Child Welfare
The “Fostering the Future for American Children and Families” Executive Order’s emphasis on improving data systems, accelerating permanency, and strengthening partnerships creates an opening to bring fathers and paternal kin out of the margins. This is strategic. When fathers are engaged early, when their families are considered as viable kinship placements, and when agencies have the training to do this well, children experience less trauma, fewer moves, and faster pathways to safety and permanency.
Taking Care of Your Mental Health: An Open Letter to Young Fathers
New fatherhood is a rollercoaster, and it’s okay if some days feel like you’re clenching the safety bar with both hands. Your mental health isn’t separate from this ride; it is the seatbelt that keeps you in the car.
If your mood feels stuck — anger that won’t cool down, sadness that won’t lift, anxiety that pins you to the mattress — talk to someone. Just as we practice for a trade or a sport, counseling helps us develop mental and emotional skills for partnerships, parenting, and work.
What Fatherhood Programs Must Say About Domestic Violence
As an organization that works daily with fathers — men who are often healing, learning, and rebuilding their relationships — FI sees firsthand that domestic violence is not just a women’s issue or just a criminal justice issue. It’s a family issue. A public health issue. A community issue.
When fatherhood programs give men the language, space, and opportunity to confront domestic violence, they often become some of the strongest advocates for ending it.
NRFC Highlights for 2025, a Year That Put Tools in Dads’ Hands
This year, the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC) kept its promise to meet dads where they are, give them what they can use, and keep the lights on — day and night — so help is there when it’s needed. On behalf of the Office of Family Assistance, our team at Fathers Incorporated focused NRFC activities on developing clear guidance, stronger platforms, and real pathways for dads and the people who serve them.
Why Rural Fathers Matter: Stories from Appalachia and Beyond
I keep replaying a moment from filming our PSAs with rural dads. The cameras were down, and one of the dads looked over the ridge and said, “I didn’t know I had it in me to be this kind of father.” I know that feeling.
When Fatherhood Requires a Court Order: What Georgia Must Fix Now
For the first time in years, lawmakers gathered publicly to confront an issue many Georgians have never even heard of—legitimation.
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.
Celebrating Responsible Fatherhood: New #Dadication PSAs Launched
As Father’s Day approaches, dads share heartwarming stories of “parenting firsts,” to inspire and empower fathers to be active and present in their children’s lives.
Empowering Fathers: Navigating Legal and Emotional Challenges in Family Law with Jeffery Leving
His work extends beyond the individual to the systemic. Leving’s radio show, where he imparts valuable legal insights to a broader audience, is a testament to this fact.
New “Dadication” Ads Aim to Inspire Responsible Fatherhood
A new series of public service announcements (PSAs) in English and Spanish have been created for this Father’s Day to highlight fatherhood involvement,
Breaking the Silence: Confronting the Crisis in Men’s Health
Men’s health is not just a men’s issue; it is a societal one. The outcomes have an indirect impact on families, communities, and our economy as a whole.
Fathers Incorporated Launches the Moynihan Institute for Fatherhood Research & Policy
The Moynihan Institute for Research and Policy will look to provide descriptive explanatory research and policy positions on issues that impact Black families from the perspective of fathers.
Fathers Incorporated Launches Drive To Five Campaign
The Drive to Five messaging campaign will equip and empower fathers with the necessary tools to understand the importance of and fully develop their role as fathers, encouraging them to engage positively with their children during the most formative years of life–up to age 5.
3 Major Challenges You’ll Face as a Single Parent and What to Do About Them
If you’re facing life as a single parent, there’s a good chance that something tough has put you in that position.