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• Restoring Fathers to Families and Communities: SIX STEPS for Policymakers - This guide was developed by the Social Policy Action Network to help fill the gap in information available for state and local officials about what they can do, legislatively and administratively, to help fathers help their children. Each of the six steps offered include a menu of policy options and provide detailed examples of what states, communities, and nonprofits nationwide are already doing to promote responsible fatherhood.
  
  
• Seven Core Learnings on Fatherhood - FRIENDS National Resource Center For Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention.
  The National Center on Fathers and Families identified seven lessons that should be considered by policymakers and researchers concerned with the role of fathers in family life, including a brief explanation of issues related to the diversity of ways in which fathers demonstrate care for their families.
  
  
• Economic Support and the Dilemma of Teen Fathers - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Helen Bader School of Social Welfare.
  Journal of Health and Social Policy. Teen fathers continue to present dilemmas for policymakers because of their status as minors, lack of understanding of the policy implications for parenthood, lack of skills, and high unemployment rates. Young men face several barriers to involvement with their children, including physical separation, conflicts with the child's mother, rejection from family members because of their inability to provide financial support, misperceptions of health care providers, and developmental stage.
  
  
• Fatherhood Programs and Public Policy - Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy.
  Designed for social service providers, this document reviews public policies affecting fatherhood programs and offers recommendations for programs. It begins by discussing the impact of federal public policy on fatherhood programs and the inclusion of marriage promotion in social welfare policy. The trend towards stricter enforcement of child support requirements is noted, barriers impeding collaboration between fatherhood programs and social welfare programs are explored, and strategies fatherhood programs can use to promote collaboration with child support agencies are offered.