Fathers Direct is a United Kingdom charity, founded in 1999. It claims to have expertise in:
social work, family policy, business development and communications.
Its mission is to support the welfare of children by the positive and active involvement of fathers and male carers in their lives. [1]
Fathers Direct published the following statistics in 2004 [2]:
- In separated and single parent households 55% of children see their fathers less than monthly, 33% have no contact at all.
- 12.5% never knew their father (Smith M (2004) Relationships of children in stepfamilies with their non-resident fathers, Family Matters Vol 67 pp28-35)
- Seventy-five per cent of non-resident fathers would like to see more contact occurring (Smyth B & Ferro A (2002) 'When the difference is night and day: parent-child contact after separation', Family Matters Vol 63 pp 54-59).
- In one study of cohabiting parents, 47% of the fathers had either been their children's primary carers or had taken substantial responsibility for their care before separation - yet none had been awarded through the Courts, or had felt able to obtain through non-court agreements, primary care of their children after separation. (Lewis C, Papcosta A & Warin J (2002) Cohabitation, separation & fatherhood. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
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