Working and single dads often need help, but may not know where to look to find support when raising children alone. A number of organizations and programs exist to help educate, support and offer ideas and resources to single fathers. Blending work and financial responsibilities while caring for the emotional and physical needs of children of any age is both demanding and rewarding. Learn where you can turn for some sources to help make your job as a single parent a little easier.
Successful Fathering
Organizations such as the Center for Successful Fathering offer a variety of resources and educational information on how to be a better father. The organization also offers seminars on caring for children of various ages, resources for new fathers on the importance of parental involvement in a child's life and information on the impact of absent fathers on children of all ages.
Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services has created a program promoting fatherhood responsibility. Resources and information regarding effective parenting tips, financial and emotional stability and even how to deal with incarceration all focus on learning about methods of how to be a good father in a variety of circumstances. The department suggests that children with loving fathers involved in their growth and development, regardless of socioeconomic factors, are more self-confident and exhibit more positive behaviors than those who did not have such influences.
National Center for Fathering
The National Center for Fathering offers advice, tips and resources for adoptive fathers, as well as those who are divorced or at-home dads. The website offers information for single dads, step-dads as well as those living in urban environments under a variety of circumstances. Some of the information on this site is submitted by dads who have "been there, done that," giving single fathers realistic information for dealing with a wide variety of scenarios.
Dads and Daughters
Dads and Daughters is an organization created by author and speaker Joe Kelly on how to successfully raise a daughter, as well as sons, by single dads. Known as "The Dad Man," Kelly has written a variety of books on parenting and speaks in many communities about parenthood for dads in many different situations. Kelly's Dads and Daughters program offers resources for raising daughters ranging in age from elementary school to teens, as well as support for those with adult daughters as well.
