Positive Father Involvement
Research demonstrates that children benefit in a variety of ways when they have significant positive involvement with fathers andfather figures. These findings are increasingly being noted as a reason for strengthening the relationship between dads and their children.
Broad Benefits for Kids'
Young children with involved Fathers display enhanced social skills such as:
- Greater empathy
- Less gender role stereotyping
- More awareness of needs and rights of others
- More generous
- Higher self-esteem
- More self-control and less impulsive
Father involvement protects children from engaging in deliquent behavior and is associated with less substance abuse among adolescents, less delinquency, less drug use, truancy, stealing, and a lower frequency of externalizing and internalizin\g symptoms such as acting out, disruptive behavior, depression, sadness and lying.
Young Dads Services
This program addresses:
- How a father and his child can establish a relationship and bond
- The importance of a Father's involvement in their child's life
- Support in accessing social services and community programs
- addressing multi-generational family dynamics and issues
- Focusing on the personal needs of a father
- Overcoming barriers to being a positive role model
How can we help?
Please follow the link below to complete an easy questionnaire that will help us help you.
“In many ways, I came to understand the importance of fatherhood through its absence-both in my life and in the lives of others. I came to understand that the hole a man leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children is one that no government can fill. We can do everything possible to provide good jobs and good schools and safe streets for our kids, but it will never be enough to fully make up the difference. That is why we need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.”
- President Barack Obama (June 19, 2009)
For more information contact Mike at 320-763-6638 or email him at mike@wingsfamilyservices.com
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