Daddy's Home is a proactive organization recognized for our leadership role in helping young people avoid
the emotional, economical and social consequences of being fatherless...promoting the many benefits of positive fathering.
We were founded in 2007 by our current Executive Director & CEO Stephen Ward on the basis
that every child needs love, support, values, and the guidance of a father. Daddy's Home strengthens
and empowers families, one father at a time.
Daddy's Home assist in breaking the fatherless cycle that has plagued so many cities and communities.
We mend broken hearts and save the lives of many by teaching, nurturing and encouraging fathers to be involved and be responsible.
We champion the role of responsible fatherhood by inspiring and equipping men to be more engaged
in the lives of children. We empower men to resume a servant-based leadership role in their families and communities.
Over 50% of children in the United States experience the pain of father abandonment before they reach the
age of eighteen. In some inner city communities, it is a staggering 80%!
Father absence is the primary cause of both economic and social poverty. The majority of school drop
outs, drug addictions, criminal behavior and out-of-wedlock pregnancies can be traced to the absence of a healthy father in
the home. Father absence cuts across all racial, social and economic boundaries. For some communities, the primary
factor is out-of-wedlock births and in others it is divorce. In either case, the effects can be devastating on children
and often last a lifetime. The vast majority of young people who become incarcerated for criminal activity have grown
up without a father in the home. 70% of kids with a parent in prison will end up incarcerated themselves.
Violent crime, drug and alcohol abuse, truancy, teenage pregnancy and suicide all correlate more strongly
to fatherlessness than to any other single factor. The majority of prisoners, juvenile detention inmates, high school
dropouts, pregnant teenagers, adolescent murderers and rapists come from fatherless homes. Virtually every major social
pathology has been linked to father absence. The connection is so strong that controlling for fatherlessness erases
the relationships between race and crime and between low income and crime.
The most important issue underlying the majority of troubled kids is the voluntary abandonment of children
by their fathers. Without caring dads, many kids lack clear boundaries, effective discipline and healthy male role models.
They live with the chronic pain of rejection. Drugs and alcohol are often used in attempts to dull the pain. Gangs
may be chosen by boys to find structure and male leadership and crime can become a way to pay for drugs. Looking for
love in all the wrong places is a way to find some measure of acceptance and love. Too often, the babies that come from
these relationships grow up to begin another cycle of father absence.
From a societal perspective, this particular consequence of fatherlessness is very much like most others.
It is not remediable. Paternal disinvestment cannot be offset by either maternal investment or public investment.
As a society, we will not solve our crisis of fatherlessness with prison cells, boyfriends, antistalking laws, income transfers,
or even mothers. We will solve it only with fathers.
The most important moral and legal rule concerning the physiological site of kinship is that no child should
be brought into the world without a man - and one man at that - assuming the role of sociological father, that is, of guardian
and protector, the male link between the child and the rest of the community.
Daddy's Home makes teenage fathers come alive, and offers practical suggestions and techniques for helping
them become responsible and loving parents. Daddy's Home helps young men learn the art and skills of parenting and assist
them in meeting the challenge of being truly involved parents, no matter what their relationship may be with their child's
other parent. Daddy's Home is making a difference, and important difference, in their lives and
in their children's lives.
