Welcome to The Directive. This is a regular assortment of father related news stories, information, and fun stuff.
- Call for Workshop and Poster Presentations for the 2nd Canadian Father Involvement Conference. Due Oct 31. Check out here: english (2017-dcc-call-for-proposalsen) and french (2017-dcc-call-for-proposalsfr).
- Children are often the silent voices during cases of domesitc violence. This study looks at the issues from the child’s perspective.
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Fathering in the Shadows: Indigenous Fathers and Canada’s Colonial Legacies. Here is an inaugural study from a few years back that began some good work on understanding indigenous fatherhood.
- How do caregivers manage the decision to tell children about their incarcerated father? This study gives us some insight.
- Dad Central Ontario will be at the OAICD conference in Windsor (Oct 20,21) and the Ontario Health Promotion Association Forum in Toronto (Nov 8).
- Fathers with gay sons. A small research study looking at how these relationships fare.
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Follow us on Twitter for #fatherfact Friday! Get some great info like this: Bringing #baby into the world brings many changes. This #dad has it nailed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lbyPkpnU
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