Children Don’t Need Perfect Fathers. They Need Present Ones.
Making a difference to children must also mean making a difference to the fathers who love them. When we support fathers, we […]
Hip-Hop Has Been Telling Us About Fatherhood All Along
The music has already warned us what happens when a man’s pain goes unprocessed. It becomes rage, distance, and addiction. It becomes […]
Black Fathers as Freedom Builders: Juneteenth, Protection, and the Power of Presence
As we celebrate Juneteenth, we’re reminded that freedom isn’t only a historical event. It’s a daily practice. It’s found in the ways […]
We Declare June National Fatherhood Month
It is about the father who is living in the home and the father who is fighting to stay connected from outside […]
A Father-Inclusive Reading of Family Stability Data
Fatherhood isn’t a sentimental add-on to family policy. It’s part of the structure. For too long, America has built family policy around […]
What Griff’s New Book Reveals About Mothers, Sons, and the Journey from Boyhood to Manhood
At the center of the book is a simple but provocative idea: Mothers can raise sons, but mothers are not men. That […]
Redefining Strength: Black Men in the Care Economy
or too long, American culture has offered Black men a narrow script. It has treated masculinity as hardness, distance, stoicism, or physical […]
When Parents Lose Control on the Sideline, Kids Lose More Than the Game
The sideline is a place where childhood, ambition, community, and family values meet in public. That means it’s also one of the […]
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 […]
The Only Magic in This Atlanta Hawks–Magic City Collaboration Is the Disappearance of Morality
From a programmatic perspective at Fathers Incorporated, we spend our days encouraging fathers to model respect for women, to support mothers, and […]
Moynihan Institute Research Shows How Black Fathers Are Naturally Closing the Father–Daughter Divide
Father-daughter relationships can become strained or estranged more often than other parent-child bonds, and many adult daughters report discomfort in sharing personal […]
Honor Mothers, Especially in Front of the Kids
Co-parenting comes with real complexity. Real pain. Real history. But even then, especially then, honoring the mother in front of the kids […]