The Center for Successful Fathering was founded in 1995 by Dr. Ron Klinger as a response to the growing number of children who were growing up without a father in their lives. Children need a balance of mothers and fathers in their lives. In 1960, over 80% of our nation’s children went to sleep in a home where both the biological mother and father were present. Today that number has dropped to less than 25%.

Dr. Klinger found that children that have active and involved dads are:

• More successful in school
• More ambitious
• More self confident with their respective male or female identities
• Self-protective and self-reliant
• Less likely to drop out
• Less susceptible to peer pressure
• Less likely to get in trouble with the law

In the past five years, CSF has worked with over 100,000 dads and kids across the nation. These “dads” include biological fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers, uncles, brothers, godfathers, friends, mentors … in short, any male who is in the position to be a positive role model.

“We want the educators who deal with fathers and mothers everyday to use what we have learned about how to get and keep fathers involved with their children.”

Dr. Ron Klinger

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