If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years as a clinical psychologist and director of The Fatherhood Project (TFP), it’s that men want to be active and emotionally engaged with their children, but they don’t always know how. Our research supports this idea, and also shows that the earlier a father is involved with …
Thanks to a shared interest in encouraging engaged fathers, The Fatherhood Project has recently partnered with the National Basketball Player’s Association Foundation (NBPA) to create resources for fathers and promote active fatherhood in Massachusetts and in NBA cities across the country. We are excited and pleased to have such a strong partner, because, as the …
In my work on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Adoptions With Love, I came across a father’s letter to his adopted son on his adoption day. The letter is filled with emotions–love, appreciation, gratitude– expressed directly. The letter will be part of the father’s legacy to his son, left for a later day …
During our August 2015 Father Survey at MGH’s Vincent Obstetrics out-patient service, the thoughts of one of the fathers drifted to what he would really like: A bar in the waiting room! This will not be among the offerings to the fathers who accompany their wives and partners to pre-natal visits, but he must have …
When our team first convened to consider the problems we might encounter as we began our ground-breaking research at MGH’s Vincent Obstetrics service, we wondered whether the fathers who accompanied their pregnant partners and wives to prenatal care visits would want to spend the time to complete our Father Survey. Would they rather be engaged …