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Session I

Thursday, September 14 , 2017

“The Invisible Man” Impacts of Positive Father/Male Absence on Child, Family, and

Community Well-Being.

Presented by: David Cozart, Director

Why this one?

AGENDA •Needs & Purpose

•Causes of Violence & Community Pathology

•Establish Model Framework & Principles

•Why Fathers/Men?

•Q & A (Ongoing)

Examine current family composition & challenges

Establish the importance of comprehensive family planning/services

Establish ways to empower fathers while avoiding alienation or enabling

Create dialogue about how to institutionalize fatherhood programming

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES

Evaluate agency's’ for “father /male sensitivity”

Identify the elements of a full service men’s programs

Discover ways to promote and increase participation within your current structure

MAINLY!!!!!

PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES (cont) Positively impact life outcomes of

CHILDREN, Families, & commuities

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Examples of Structural Causes to Violence

• Neighborhood Design/Composition

• Generational Family Dysfunction

• Systemic Accountability

• Poverty/Household Income

• Various “Isms”

• Political Climates

• Labor Market Conditions

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Examples of Developmental

/Life Course Causes to Violence

• Broken Homes

• Traumatic Experiences/Events

• Peer Pathology

• Low SES

• Low/Marginal Supervision

• No/Low/Poor/Inappropriate Discipline

• Unhealthy or No Social Ties

WHAT ABOUT THE

MEN?

A woman

without her man

is nothing.

A woman,

without her,

man is nothing.

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State and National Statistics

In God we trust.

ALL OTHERS BRING DATA!!!

State and National Statistics

Father-absence Crisis in America Father-absence Crisis in America

Child Maltreatment in KY

48,910 calls met acceptance criteria

The calls reported 40,515 unique families involving 63,438 children

19,521 children were involved in the substantiated cases

CY 2011 TWIST Data

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Child Maltreatment in KY

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Child Maltreatment in KY Child Maltreatment in KY

Neglect accounts for the largest percentage of substantiations.

Father FACTors current family composition & challenges

Difficult to count Fathers

Live births?

Unwed births?

Teen births?

Child Support Orders/Collections?

Early Paternity Establishment Programs

Kentucky Families 2010 Census

Total Population: 4,339,367

Children ages 0-17: 1,019,871

Children w/ mother only-27% -2009

Father Only: 6%

Kentucky Families 2010 Census

Child Support Collected 2000: $240,645,454

2010: $403,675,684

(around 50%)

***RECORDED

Additional Research and Statistics

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Can you see any ways the father might impact these indicators?

Can you see any ways the father might impact these indicators?

KYA Kentucky Kids Count,

What About the Father????

Where do babies come from???

father

DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL DADDY’S LITTLE GIRL

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Father absence is associated with earlier

menarche and a developmental

trajectory characterized by earlier

readiness for reproduction

Institute for Mind and Biology, University of Chicago, IL,

(November 2004)

-“Girls growing up in homes without their biological fathers tend to go

through puberty earlier than their peers. Whereas evolutionary theories of

socialization propose that this relation is causal, it could arise from

environmental or genetic confounds. “

-“Girls from disrupted families who were exposed to serious paternal

dysfunction in early childhood attained menarche 11 months earlier than

either their older sisters or other younger sisters from disrupted families

who were not exposed to such dysfunction. These data suggest that early

exposure to disordered paternal behavior, followed by family disruption

and residential separation from the father,can lead to substantially earlier

menarche.”

-Facilitates “evolutionary sciences, a faster reproductive

strategy” (Dr. Sarah E. Hill and Danielle J. DelPriore, Texas Christian University, 2013)

Published in: Developmental Psychology · 2008

Authors: Jacqueline M Tither · Bruce J Ellis

Affiliation: University of Canterbury · University of Arizona

More Support……

Adapted from: Collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and the Centers

for Disease Control: “Adverse Childhood Experiences Study” (ACE)

Principal Investigators: Felitti & Anda

(Also associated with Trauma-Informed Care)

ACE’s: Bilateral Impact