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  One evening each June, young girls in party dresses and shiny shoes arrive at a Richmond, Va. City jail for a date with their dads. They are escorted inside by the sheriff and met on a red carpet by their fathers, who for the occasion have been allowed to trade in their jumpsuits for […]

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*Dwayne Wade is a model single father (to the public). Since his very public debacle with ex-wifeSiohvaughn Funches, he’s written a memoir on parenting, “A Father First: How My Life Became Bigger than Basketball.” In an interview with Jet Magazine, the star basketball player described his custody battle and how his life experiences influenced his parenting methods. […]

- Daily Praise

On Tuesday, April 30, proud father and pastor of Empowerment Temple in Baltimore, MD, Jamal Bryant celebrated his twin daughters’ birthdays. Angel and Adore, who posed for an adorable snap with Daddy, received a very special birthday gift—a prayer. Bryant, 41, who has opened up regarding his shortcomings on multiple occasions, wrote on Twitter, “Dear […]

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  When you’re feeling stressed out about the kids, what do you do? If you’re Karen Clark-Sheard, you enjoy a little retail therapy and a good chat with a close girlfriend. This is precisely what the first lady did during a taping of BET’s “The Sheards,” while hat shopping with, and confiding in her “mentor,” […]

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President Barack Obama says he and the first lady have a good strategy to prevent their daughters from getting tattoos. “What we’ve said to the girls is, if you guys ever decide to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will get the exact same tattoo in the same place. And we’ll go on YouTube […]

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If you have a kid in middle school or high school (I’m not going to use the word “tween” even though my mom uses it because tweens don’t actually says “tween”), you probably get really frustrated with them all the time because they don’t tell you about their lives. And you probably think it’s because they’re […]

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Among the most cited statistics plaguing the African American community is this one: 72 percent of Black children are born in households with absent fathers. This is often tied to the breakdown of the minority family infrastructure. The testimony of Christian entrepreneur, Jay Harris, underscores the issue. “I met a bunch of other guys who didn’t […]

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  Despite the number of statistics pointing to a wealth of disadvantages children face in a single parent home, 72 percent of African-American children are born out-of-wedlock. Of all single parent homes in the US, more than 80 percent are headed by women. In the Black community alone, the absence of a father figure has reached epidemic proportions, […]

Entertainment

When it comes to raising her kids, Jada Pinkett Smith isn’t authoritarian in her rule-making. “I think that old school style of ‘I’m your parent and I’m greater than you’ doesn’t work,” she told PEOPLE at a Yes to Prop 35 event hosted by The Moms on Monday afternoon. “What I establish with my children is a partnership.” Adds […]

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Black celebrity dads have been in the news lately from Usher wresting custody of his two sons from his ex-wife Tameka Raymond to LL Cool J doing the family protection thing by beating up an intruder who attempted to rob his home. But no father has embraced the role as much as Miami Heat basketball […]

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Many Christians who love both God and their children choose to spank as a method of discipline, citing multiple scriptures as their foundation for doing so. A new study, however, is saying that childhood spanking may lead to mental illness, depression, alcoholism, and anxiety. The Official Journal of The American Academy of Pediatrics has published […]

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Anthony Ware and his high-school sweetheart parted ways years ago. But the 44-year-old St. Paul man swore he was not going to make the same mistake far too many men make when a kid comes along before the breakup. So Ware, a nonresident joint-custody father, was there for the occasional diaper changing. He was there […]