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Fatherhood Facts
Father Absence
Often an afterthought and commonly taken for granted. Fathers.
Your presence is vital and your absence can be earth shattering.
*Stats found at Fatherhood.Org
Involved stepdads help their stepchildren’s mental well-being per research.
❋ Stepdads Stepping Up
❋ Healthy Involvement
Adolescents who report higher levels of father-adolescent warmth, communication, time together, academic expectations, and relationship satisfaction also report significantly higher levels of self-rated general health in young adulthood.
❋ Absence is Dangerous
Individuals from father absent homes are 279% more likely to carry guns and deal drugs than peers who lived with their fathers.
❋ Academic Outcomes
The lowest achievement and the highest risk of school failure and course failure were experienced by adolescents who did not have a resident father figure and didn’t know the identity of their fathers.
Your Presence Matters
When fathers are present, child outcomes improve significantly!
Don’t underestimate your value
❋ Socio-Emotional Benefit
Positive forms of father involvement (involvement in child-related activities, engagement in multiple forms of involvement and developing a positive father-child relationship) is associated with children’s social and emotional well-being as well as behavioral adjustment and academic achievement.
Viscious Cycle
Men who grow up with absent fathers are more likely to become absent fathers.
Women who grow up with absent fathers are also more likely to have children with absent fathers.
More Facts On Fathers
Fathers report
Greater happiness, subjective well-being, psychological need satisfaction, and daily uplifts than did men without children.
Greater happiness during caregiving experiences, whereas mothers reported lower happiness, compared with their other activities.
Fathers also reported relatively higher happiness when interacting with their children than did mothers
Breakthrough Today
Break The Cycle
We all fall victim to cycles and behaviors we never signed up for. Now is the time to call out the negative cycles, embrace our identity, and cultivate the family and community we desire to thrive in.
Wake Up
5:00am – 7:00am
Suffer In Silence
5:00am - Until…
Go To Work
7:00am - 5:00pm
Suffer In Silence
7:00am - Until…
Return Home. Rinse. Repeat
5:00pm - Until….