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Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Father Child Relationships

A father's apology transformed the life of this father and son as his aging father apologizes.

The Power Of A Father’s Apology

Whether your children are fully grown, or still crawling on your lap, the power of an apology can transform your relationship.

The impact of radical feminism on boys and men. Little boy looking back and smiling as he is holding his daddy's hand

Protecting Our Sons: Navigating a Radical Feminist Culture

Radical feminism and the crisis of male identity has impacted our families in a barrage of subtle attacks.

woman talking to her daughter about same sex attraction

How to Talk with Your Adult Daughter about Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Same-Sex Attraction

Note: This article is intended to support and encourage parents of adult children only.

How to be the dad your family needs is being with them. Dad standing with wife, son and daughter celebrating.

Fatherhood: How to be the Dad Your Family Needs

Fathers have the awesome responsibility of laying a spiritual foundation in the home. But what does that mean, exactly? How can you be the dad your family needs?

Breaking the Cycle of Absent Fathers

You don’t have to make the same choices in life that your father did. You can use your life story as a springboard to another path. You can choose how to write the next chapters in your story. Make the choice for the cycle of absent fathers to end with you.

Fathers Impact Child Development

When dads are involved with their kids at all ages and stages of childhood, they will help them grow and thrive

How Fathers Help Kids Grow

When fathers are attentive to their children, they build relationships that encourage healthy child development.

Rashad Jennings in the NFL

Rashad Jennings: The Words He Longed to Hear

Rashad Jennings’ pursuit of his father’s approval fueled his desire to become an NFL running back

preparing for fatherhood

Overcoming Four Fears of Preparing for Fatherhood

Preparing for fatherhood contains a mixture of fears and joys. Read about one story of a soon to be father and his journey towards growing into fatherhood. Then, discover how you can overcome four common fears of fatherhood.

How To Protect The Rights of Children

At a time when marriage, parenting, and family structures are being redefined and reinvented, what about the kids? Do children have rights, and how are they being threatened when adult happiness is all that seems to matter? In a crucial conversation for a culture undergoing so much change, Katy Faust and John Stonestreet will discuss …

How to Set a Good Example for your Kids

Although your children may make harmful decisions that affect their lives, you can support and guide them as they grow. We are called to show our children God’s way to live. In doing so, you can set a good example for your children that will impact the rest of their lives.

13 Lessons That Dads Can Teach Their Daughters

13 Lessons Dads Can Teach Their Daughters

As a father, you can provide advice, encouragement, and love to your daughter. Explore the 13 essential lessons dads can teach their daughters to create a positive and long-lasting momentum in their lives.

Son reading his father's book of parenting secrets

My Father’s Little Black Book of Parenting Secrets

But there in the corner of my father’s dresser drawer, under the belts, was something I had never before seen: a well-worn black book with a gold-lettered title: “Father’s Manual.”

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Adventures That Bond Dads and Kids

Fathers can bond with their kids through adventure.

Superman flying is an image of a father. He is super to his family.

The Life of a Super Dad

It takes more than super strength to be a super dad. Strong dads serve their families everyday.

When Dads Disciple Sons

When fathers make intentional efforts to disciple and mentor their sons, they build strong relationships and encourage faith development.

Dads are heroes

Dads Are Heroes to Their Kids

Learn how dads can take back the role they have been given to become a hero to their children.

Missing Dad

I was at my dad’s office the other day. I swiveled in his chair, read the book spines that lined the shelves, checked my email from his computer, tried out his ink pens, counted the unused coffee mugs, rifled through papers on his desk and read everything hanging on the walls. I felt like a …