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What Caring for Our Children Teaches us About Fathering and Masculinity
Jun 20 2021
By Aaron Jackson, author of Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities
Why did he die?’ My youngest daughter, Winter, asks.
I scoop her onto my knee; three years old and already trying to make meaning of her brother’s death. In the years fol...
The Fathers Who Could Have Been George Floyd
Nov 19 2020
by Jennifer Randles, author of Essential Dads: The Inequalities and Politics of Fathering
Only if I’m dead or in jail. These were the reasons the fathers I talked to said they would not be there for their children. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in 2020, these wo...