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Creating new habits takes time and energy. New behaviors don't become automatic overnight, but you may enjoy some benefits fairly quickly. For example, as you start to take walks regularly or engage in stress-soothing practices frequently, you'll find you won't feel quite right if you stop – and that can be a great incentive to continue. This online article suggests nudging yourself in the direction you'd like to go and offers seven tips to help you create long-lasting change. 

NACA created the Kit for Kids to help children cope with their parent’s addiction.

Everyone needs to eat regular meals. So why not turn your meal prep time into quality time with your kids as you serve up delicious food?

New studies suggest that having a sense of purpose makes dads healthier, happier, and stronger in the face of challenges we're all facing.

This episode of NPR’s All Things Considered looks at how many men are being forced to confront new realities at home since the pandemic. It includes anecdotal stories of dads stepping up domestically and describes census data that also suggests a larger number of men are spending more time at home.

No matter how much you love your grandkids, raising them comes with many challenges as well as rewards. These guidelines can help you succeed at parenting the second time around.

In fairy tales, the stepmother is the enemy, but father surrogates—a man who takes over the functions of the biological father—are often considered a great addition to a family. The conventional wisdom is that children of single mothers, especially boys, need a man in the home to provide a role model. Unfortunately, some studies find that children with a father surrogate living at home are more likely to be reported for maltreatment—abuse and neglect—than those with a biological father at home or, as some research shows, no father figure at all.

Being a parent is one of the most rewarding and most exhausting experiences there is. Parenting has continuous obstacles to overcome, but single parents face their own set of unique challenges—especially when it comes to finances. With the current coronavirus pandemic, dads may be feeling even more overwhelmed if job stability is up in the air. All of this in addition to the fact that kids are unexpectedly out of school, eating more at home, and needing more parental attention. This article provides single dads with financial literacy tips to help stay on stable, financial ground during…

All states have programs that give unmarried parents the opportunity to acknowledge the father’s paternity of the newborn at the hospital. States must also help parents acknowledge paternity up until the child’s eighteenth birthday through vital records offices or other offices designated by the state. Even if the parents plan to marry after their baby is born, establishing paternity helps to protect the relationship between the child and the father.

Our nation’s military fathers and their families face an unprecedented context. Between 2001 and 2008, there was a ten-fold increase in the number of Department of Defense troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan (Belasco, 2009). In 2008 the Parents as Teachers National Center chose SAY--San Diego’s Healthy Start Military Family Resource Center--for its innovation in collaborating with the military to form Dads On Duty, a program uniquely tailored to young military dads with kids ages birth to 5. To date more than 150 fathers have completed Dads on Duty, which uses evidence-based practices…