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 […]
Black Fathers as Freedom Builders: Juneteenth, Protection, and the Power of Presence
By Dr. Matisa Wilbon, Moynihan Institute for Fatherhood Research and Policy Juneteenth invites us to remember that freedom was never simply announced; […]
A Passport Policy Won’t Fix Child Support’s Poverty Problem
The question isn’t whether child support should be paid. It should. The better question is whether our policies are designed to produce […]
Fatherhood Is a Protective Factor, But Only When Safety Leads
Children have to be the anchor. Not adult pride. Not program numbers. Not public relations. Not whether dad feels validated or mom […]
Advertisers Are Still Selling the Myth of the Missing Black Father
by The Moynihan Institute for Fatherhood Research and Policy There is a moment many Black fathers know too well. It happens while […]
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 […]
You Can’t Close the Minority Health Gap While Ignoring Fathers
If father presence matters, then father health matters. Father involvement has long been associated with positive child outcomes. If we celebrate engaged […]
Redefining Strength: Black Men in the Care Economy
For too long, American culture has offered Black men a narrow script. It has treated masculinity as hardness, distance, stoicism, or physical […]
When Fathers Lose Access to Economic Opportunity, Families Carry the Cost
Since household composition is often shaped by economics, fathers cannot be left out of the conversation about why female-headed households carry so […]
Addressing the Crisis of Black Maternal Health: A Critical Role for Black Fathers
Experts link dire outcomes for Black women to systemic racism, limited health care access, and chronic conditions like diabetes and hypertension. While […]
Building Responsible Fatherhood Into the Architecture of Family Policy and Federal Funding
The opportunity in front of the responsible fatherhood field is not only to preserve resources but to clarify relevance. Our field has […]
Black Fathers Are Blocked, Not Missing: What Fulton County Teaches America About Father Engagement
Our study asks a question that the responsible fatherhood and human services fields sometimes avoid because it’s inconvenient: If we say fathers […]