{"id":16741,"date":"2025-06-06T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16741"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:59:02","slug":"how-present-fathers-impact-their-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16741","title":{"rendered":"How Present Fathers Impact Their Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/how-present-fathers-impact-their-children\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/how-present-fathers-impact-their-children\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The National Fatherhood Initiative notes that \u201c[f]ather involvement provides numerous benefits for child well-being, starting prenatally and lasting into adulthood. Engaged fathers enhance cognitive skills, reading proficiency, and self-esteem, while reducing risks of poor birth outcomes, poverty, food insecurity, and behavioral issues.\u201d The group encourages communities wanting to make the largest impact on families to start with a focus on dads and increasing their involvement in their children\u2019s lives.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Just reading today\u2019s news headlines tells us we need strong, involved fathers more than ever to raise up the next generation. When fathers and mothers intentionally work together to form strong families, they immeasurably help protect and strengthen our values and freedoms by ensuring our churches, communities, state, and nation don\u2019t just survive but thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/how-present-fathers-impact-their-children\/ The National Fatherhood Initiative notes that \u201c[f]ather involvement provides&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16742,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions\/16742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}