Help us observe National Fatherhood Day™ on March 29th!

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for your interest in The Fatherhood Assignment™, a community-driven think tank designed to explore and explain the consequences of adolescent and teen-aged youth having an absentee father, and to encourage action to improve their lives.

Family stability is a vital foundation for a child. The childhood or teenage years without a father or father figure in one’s life is can have lasting effects on a person. Growing up in a broken home can lead a youth to drugs, crime, financial instability, undervaluing education, professional failure and a continuous cycle of these problems into subsequent generations. Children and teens with weak family structures and voids in the paternal role can be attracted and lured to alternative family structures outside of the home to fill this void, including participating in gang membership as a substitute family. Such affiliations can lead to drugs, crime and violence.

The Fatherhood Assignment is organized as a community-driven think tank designed to collect the knowledge of:

• Professionals in the areas of psychology, psychiatry, childhood development, social science and mental health;
• Children and teens experiencing a youth without a father due to death, abandonment or imprisonment;
• Adults who grew up in one of the aforesaid circumstances; and Mothers who are raising and who have raised children under any such circumstance.

Our mission is to gather this data and educate men of every community on the effects that an absent father can have on the life of a young boy or girl, and to encourage stable male figures to fill a void in a youth’s life by becoming a stable male presence from whom such youth can learn and on whom he or she can lean, providing him or her with purpose, a sense of belonging and self-confidence.

Our goal is to help youths to avoid a life of purposelessness, rejection, emptiness, anger, underachievement, and/or crime resulting from a youth without a father.

While The Fatherhood Assignment is an academic exercise by all participants to understand a problem and achieve a socially good outcome, it is also a moral “assignment” given to all professionally and emotionally stable men around the world to protect and assist youths in their communities who are devoid of a father in their lives.

If you are a qualified professional, or someone with personal experience in this area, please contribute your knowledge or personal story so that youths without fathers can be helped to stay on straight and productive paths through the involvement of educated, motivated and stable male role models in their lives.

Thank you for caring and for any contribution or participation on your part.

Sincerely,
Neil Siskind, Founder
The Fatherhood Assignment
The Siskind Law Firm, President

Neil S. Siskind, Founder