Fatherhood Initiative

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According to a recent Gallup Poll, 80 percent of Americans felt "the most significant family or social problem facing America is the physical absence of the father from the home."  Approximately 1 out of every 4 Arizona children is growing up without the benefit of a father.  The vast majority of these children are as a result of divorce and the fastest growing segment of this population is due to non-married births.  The rate at which fathers as absent from their children's lives is growing as such a rate as to reach crisis proportions.  And it is increasingly apparent that many of the most serious problems facing children today can be almost directly traced to a father's absence.

Arizona Trends in Fatherhood

Our goal to help counter the growing problem of fatherlessness by stimulating a broad-based social movement to restore responsible fatherhood as a state priority. 

First, we seek to pursue a public education campaign highlighting the importance of fathers to the well-being of children and communities and to raise the awareness of every Arizonan that fathers make a unique and irreplaceable contribution to the lives of children, and that collectively we need to encourage and support men to good and responsible fathers.

Second, we seek to partner with local civic organizations and faith communities to stimulate local voluntary efforts towards father-friendly community building and to both individually and collectively engage fathers. 
 
We hope that you will join our efforts to strengthen Arizona's families.

For more information about the Fatherhood Initiative, please contact Stephen Browning at sbrowning@azparenting.org