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» The National Centre For Fathering (Fathers.com) [USA] » The National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) [USA] » Shared Parenting Information Group (SPIG} [UK] » Hike4Kids Above the Clouds [USA] » Responsible Single Fathers [USA] » Equal Parenting Council [UK] » Live Beat Dads UK [UK] » Kids Peace – The National Centre For Kids Overcoming Crisis [USA] » Fathermag.com [USA] » The Center For Successful Fathering [USA] » Million Dads March [USA] » Parentcenter.com [USA] » Canadian Children’s Rights Council [Canada] » e Parents [USA] » The National Family & Parenting Institute [UK] » PBS Parents [US] » XY: men, masculinities, and gender politics » Fathers.co.za [South Africa] » Separated Dads[UK] » Gingerbread & One Parent Families [UK]

» Fathers Direct [UK] » Fathers For Life [Canada] » 4Life Resources [USA] » Slowlane.com [USA] » Dads & Daughters [USA] » Glenn Sacks [USA] » Menstuff [USA] » Mens News Daily [USA] » Father's World [USA] » International Mens's Network (IMN) [USA] » The Mens Hour [UK] » Families Need Fathers [UK] » Union of Fathers [NZ] » Men's Centre [NZ] » Masculinist Evolution [NZ] » The NZ Father and Child Society [NZ] » National Centre on Fathers and Families [USA] » Fatherville [USA]

Fathers Direct [UK]
(www.fathersdirect.com)

The best thing to happen to Fatherhood since Eve entered Paradise

Fathers Direct is the UK's national information centre for fatherhood. It is a charity (reg. no. 1075104) founded in 1999 by professionals with expertise in social work, family policy, business development and communications. It exists to support the welfare of children by the positive and active involvement of fathers and male carers in their lives.

What we do:-

• We provoke public debate. We try to change limiting and outdated attitudes about the roles and responsibilities of men and women in relation to children. We explain to the public the value to children, mothers and fathers of positive relationships between children and their fathers and other male carers. We promote the importance of preparing boys and girls for a future shared role in looking after children.
• We lobby for changes in policies and practices of government and non-governmental organisations when these limit how men and women fulfil their responsibilities and roles in caring for children.
• We provide expertise and information to child and family organisations on how to help fathers and other male carers to be positively involved in the lives of children and enhance men's positive contribution to family life.

Fathers For Life [Canada]
(www.fathersforlife.org)

Fatherlessness - Canada's greatest social problem!

This website is about fatherlessness, fatherhood, and about the impact of both on children, families and society; it is also about the role that feminism and gender politics play in all of that.

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4Life Resources [USA]
(www.4liferesources.com)

The Mission of 4Life Resources is to be a team that provides difference-making information to families. reaching out helping hands. We believe in families and parenting. While we cannot be all things to all people, we will be a contact to help families get the approriate resources to better their lives. We will develop leaders that can make a difference in not only our community but make the world a better place to live.

The site has a section Dad 4Life with parenting tips and information for dads.

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Slowlane.com [USA]
(www.slowlane.com)

Welcome Fathers and Families!

Slowlane.com is the searchable online reference, resource and network for Stay At Home Dads (SAHD) and their families. The Slowlane.com site provides dads with a searchable collection of articles and media clips written by, for, and about primary care-giving fathers. It also hosts multiple web sites for at home dads, including independent SAHD groups and several local Dad-to-Dad chapters, all of whose missions are to help dads connect with each other in their local areas. Slowlane boasts an extensive collection of links to sites for all fathering issues including local and international dad organizations, single dads, new dads, divorced dads, custody issues, personal stories, connecting with other dads and much more.

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Dads & Daughters [USA] (www.dadsanddaughters.org)

Dads and Daughters provides tools to men to be better fathers and advocates for their daughters.

Dads and Daughters is the national advocacy nonprofit for fathers and daughters. DADs inspires fathers to actively and deeply engage in the lives of their daughters and galvanizes fathers and others to transform the pervasive cultural messages that devalue girls and women.

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Glenn Sacks [USA]
(www.glennsacks.com)

Glenn Sacks is a men's and fathers' issues columnist and a nationally-syndicated radio talk show host. His radio show His Side with Glenn Sacks can be heard on WSNR 620 AM in New York City, KTIE 590 AM in E. Los Angeles/Inland Empire, and WWZN 1510 AM in Boston every Sunday evening.

His Side with Glenn Sacks has received extensive media attention from major media outlets, including Time Magazine, People magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, USA Today, the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Fox, the BBC, Univision, CBS, NBC, ABC, the Associated Press, UPI, the Washington Post, the New York Post, the New York Daily News, and hundreds of others.

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Menstuff [USA]
(www.menstuff.org/frameindex.html)

Menstuff.org is the starting point for information for and about men on the web. Menstuff.org is an educational non-profit volunteer web site which serves a diverse men's community (men's rights, mythopoetic, pro-feminist, recovery, re-evaluation counseling, and spiritual).

Menstuff.org has 55 columnist reporting on a weekly or monthly basis. Menstuff.org lists thousands of on-site men's book reviews & covers, men's resources and hyperlinks and hundreds of events, periodicals and groups. We provide information on hundreds of men's issues regarding positive change in male roles and relationships (including abuse, aging, circumcision, divorce, fathers, health, kidstuff, mid-life, multicultural, prostate cancer, relationship, sexuality, spirituality, testicular cancer, violence, work, etc.)

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Mens News Daily [USA]
(mensnewsdaily.com)

An excellent U.S website that provides both U.S as well as a world round up of mens news, commentary & opinion. It boasts a large mens resource links page that also contains a womens corner.

Mens News Daily invites visitors to email them any news items for posting on their site.

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Father's World [USA]
(www.childparenting.com)

Our mission here at Father's World is to promote and celebrate fatherhood and family as the leading source of information, resources, support and education for all types of fathers and their families.

We have several aspirations for this site;

A. Support and Dialog. First and foremost, we hope to design a site where we connect fathers across the globe with each other and with the various support agencies and associations available. We hope to achieve this goal by:

1. Creating a newsletter.
2. Creating dialog and chat forums so that users can contribute ideas and share experiences with each other; and
3. Providing useful, informative, and always new reading material.

B. To be open to all Parents. We strongly aim to be an open environment, a place where many sides of an issue can be viewed. It is important for us to focus on fathering issues, whether that is for the family or nuclear father, the at home father or the single father, for fathers with babies or fathers with older children, for fathers with children with disabilities. As you see, we will try to cover all aspects of fatherhood and fathering issues. At the same time we will also be focusing on men's issues such as health, diet, and exercise.

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International Mens's Network (IMN) [USA]
(www.mens-network.org)

The IMN is non-profit, nor political nor sexist. Our aims can be seen in the International Men's Manifesto but in brief we support family values, masculinity, and yes, MEN'S rights. Whilst supporting equal opportunities we are anti-feminist, for the term "femi-nazism" is an apt description of todays deliberate persecution and slander of MEN.

The principal purpose of the IMN is to help bring together various men's groups, local and national, into a global coalition.

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The Mens Hour [UK]
(www.menshour.com)

Where the first amendment still applies to men.

The Mens Hour is an internet radio programme. Our answer to the sexist BBC's claim that the woman's hour has general appeal and therefore there's no need for a men's hour. There is need for a men's hour. Recent discussions on the Woman's Hour include whether men should pay child support for children that the mother claimed were theirs, whether there is such a thing as male menopause, whether family courts proceedings should be reportable. All these discussions had mainly feminist or feminist inclined opinions.

The Mens Hour intends to bring you items they don't want to discuss. When did you last hear about the increasing male suicide rate, how boys are being undermined at school and how fathers are being arrested for such things as saying "Hello" to their own children? All this and more will be brought to you by the men's hour, including a bit from the lighter side. For example, has anyone warned Germaine Greer about foot and mouth disease, after all it affects creatures with cloven hooves.

The first Sunday of every month the approximately one hour programme is put on the net and can be played or downloaded. We have interviews and articles from all over the World. We welcome ideas and help from men and women.

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Families Need Fathers [UK]
(www.fnf.org.uk)

Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UK charity which provides information and support to parents, including unmarried parents, of either sex. FNF is chiefly concerned with the problems of maintaining a child's relationship with both parents during and after family breakdown.

Founded in 1974, FNF helps thousands of parents every year.

What we believe
Children have a right to a continuing loving relationship with both parents
Children need to be protected from the harm of losing contact with one parent
Both parents should be treated equally and shared parenting should be encouraged
Each parent has a unique contribution to make to their children's development
The Family Courts should be backed by a nationally funded mediation service
Litigation is not the prefered route for resolving post separation childrens matters

What we do
We work to increase awareness of the problems of family breakdown
We produce booklets, leaflets, a website and a regular newsletter
We hold local self-help branch meetings throughout the UK
We provide support to members through our internet forums
We operate a national helpline accredited by the Telephone Helplines Association
We have a network of volunteer telephone contacts
We run Parenting Support workshops
We provide speakers and case studies for the press and media
We participate in family policy forums and seminars
We respond to government consultations
We lobby Parliament and the legal profession
We collate and promote relevant research information

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Union of Fathers [NZ]
(fathers.orcon.net.nz)

The Union of Fathers is dedicated to defending, promoting and championing fathers and fathering. Although, naturally, only men can be fathers, the Union of Fathers is not an exclusive group for fathers only. Anyone supportive of the role, and understanding of the importance of fathers in the lives and successful raising of children into healthy, well-balanced, mature and responsible adults is welcome to join. Ultimately, the purpose of the Union of Fathers is to promote the greatest well-being of our children, and hence, of future generations. If this means assisting or encouraging men to be better fathers, this too is our goal.

Initially, the Union of Fathers brings together Fathers’ and Children’s Rights groups from around New Zealand in a common cause: To change the attitudes within the Family Court, government agencies and some sectors of society that oppose or seek to control or restrict or in any way diminish a father’s right to be a father to his children and a child’s birthright to be nurtured by his or her father.

In effect, the Union of Fathers benefits and protects our children through supporting and protecting their fathers.

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Men's Centre [NZ]
(www.menscentre.org.nz)

Men's Centre - Support for NZ Fathers / Dads

We are a network of New Zealand voluntary groups which support fathers following divorce or separation. We can offer advice and information about the Family Court, Custody and Access, Domestic Protection Orders, False Accusations of Sexual Abuse or Domestic Violence, Child Support and Matrimonial Property.

As each group listed on this site is independent, and Family Court decisions are not always consistent throughout the country, we cannot accurately predict or accept responsibility for outcomes. Most men find however, that the support of others who have progressed a bit further down the road is extremely valuable.

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MENZ.org.au (Masculinist Evolution New Zealand) [NZ]
(www.menz.org.nz)

- promoting a clearer understanding of men's experience -

News and discussion about New Zealand men, fathers, family law, divorce, courts, protests, gender politics, and male health.

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The New Zealand Father and Child Society [NZ]
(www.fatherandchild.org.nz)

The New Zealand Father and Child Society was established in March 1998 and formally incorporated in November 1998. It was created to give local father groups/organisations support in setting up and running their initiatives, as well as giving better access to information and improve communication between these groups. It was also formed to represent fathers on a national level through government's ongoing consultation process with the community.

The aim of the society and its website is to encourage and support dialogue on issues impacting on fathers and their role in families and society.

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National Centre on Fathers and Families (NCOFF) [USA]
(www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu)

NCOFF is dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children.

NCOFF seeks to increase and enrich the possibilities for children, ensuring that they are helped and that the system allows for and encourages the positive participation of fathers in their children's lives.

NCOFF's primary goals are to:
· Expand the knowledge base on father involvement, family efficacy, and child well-being within multiple disciplines through research and development, integrated discussion, and information building
· Strengthen practice through practitioner-targeted conversations, information dissemination, and collaborative activities
· Contribute to critical policy discussions by creating a coherent agenda of work that is built around existing and emerging local, state, and federal efforts.

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Fatherville.com [USA]   [www.fatherville.com/ ]

Fatherville.com Where real fathers write about real fatherhood. that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children.

Welcome to Fatherville.com. We are a resource for fathers...by fathers and about fathers. We are here to encourage and support dads as they make their journey down the road called fatherhood..

Our mission and goal is to encourage men to become better fathers through the exchange of ideas. This exchange can take place in a number of ways: via our online forum, written essays and contributed articles from other fathers. If you are a dad there's something here for you.

We believe that when dads communicate and relate their personal tips, tricks and traps that all fathers can benefit and perhaps avoid some of the pitfalls that will occur on your journey.

The mission of Fatherville is two-fold: First to improve the well-being of children by inspiring and equipping men to be more effectively involved in the lives of children. Second to encourage, challenge, and educate fathers to become actively engaged in the lives of their children. An increasing trend towards fatherlessness in America is disturbing and the Fatherville organization is here to help reverse that trend. Founded by Michael Farrell in 2005 the organization's mission is to conduct research on fathers and fathering, and to develop practical resources to prepare dads for various fathering situations.

Ultimately Fatherville is a website resource. It's for fathers...by fathers and about fathers and the rewards of fatherhood. The purpose of this site is to provide articles and essays that will encourage men to become better fathers through the exchange of ideas that can take place in an online environment. I believe that when we are willing to relate our own personal tips, tricks and traps we can learn from one another about some of the pitfalls to be avoided. To be sure parenting is a journey. But if we can help one another along the way then we can become a support and an encouragement for one another in order to do our most important job to the very best of our ability.

So, if you are a father, a step-father, a male role model, or just a man who knows a kid who needs help then Fatherville is for you.

There are many other fathers who have committed to sharing their experiences by writing articles and/or essays and participating in the forums on this site. After all, that's what the site is all about--fathers helping fathers.