There’s a crisis in Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 870,000 children, around 1 in 6, live without their biological father at home. The data shows that fatherlessness contributes to nearly all the social issues facing our nation today. The statistics are grim, but there is hope.

Since 2002, Dads4Kids has worked tirelessly to turn the tide of fatherlessness. Each year, we reach millions of people with messages of excellence in fathering through our Community Service Announcements on TV, Social Media, Radio, and Print Media. Since Father’s Day 2002, the weekly Dads4Kids email newsletter has reached tens of thousands of men, making it the longest-running weekly fatherhood email newsletter in the world.

Dads4Kids has hosted hundreds of fatherhood success seminars, conferences and national summits, developed the online Courageous Fathering Course, and the high-level Good to Great Fathering Course. Dads4Kids has campaigned against child sexual abuse, and in 2008 we helped pioneer a National Men’s Health Policy in government. Through our efforts, the lives of over 2,500 men have been saved. The tide is turning, but there is still so much more to do.

For the sake of Australia’s children, your support is needed. Please sign up so you can stay up to date and get regular inspiration and encouragement as a Dad. We also would love for you to consider making a tax-deductible donation today, and ensuring the important work of Dads4Kids can continue.

OUR VISION

To transform the nation by inspiring fathers to help their children be the best they can be.

OUR MISSION

To equip, encourage and inspire fathers; to strengthen & support families; to engage with community, church, business & government to see our children thrive.

OUR VALUES

• Courage • Compassion • Integrity • Humility • Faith

STRATEGY

Educating and inspiring all people, especially fathers, through mainstream media, social media, the Weekly Dad email, the Daily Dad news site, mentoring opportunities, research and other resources.

Equipping and training leaders of national, state and community fathering initiatives through fatherhood courses, summits, mentoring programs and training projects.

Engaging every sector of society through strategic alliances and partnerships, in the pursuit to make excellence in fathering the norm.

Dads4Kids is a harm prevention tax-deductible charity founded 1 May 2002, with a mission to turn the tide of fatherlessness. The Dads4Kids Weekly Email Newsletter was launched on Father’s Day the same year, and it continues to this day. Research shows that the Dads4Kids weekly newsletter is the largest, longest-running weekly fatherhood email newsletter in the world. We have reached tens of thousands of men with the message of excellence in fathering.

Dads4Kids is a harm prevention charity dedicated to prevention and control of behaviour that is harmful or abusive to the life of human beings.

Fatherlessness has been shown by the social sciences to contribute to an increase in child poverty, child sexual abuse, child physical abuse, increased levels of child mortality between conception and birth, child emotional abuse, child physical abuse, child and adult drug abuse, child and adult increase in suicide, child and adult self harm and much other destructive and abusive human behaviour. Therefore, the principal activity of Dads4Kids is the prevention of such abusive human behaviours by the promotion of excellence in fathering, which shall henceforth be taken to mean:

• Fathers who are, in word and deed, responsible, involved, protective, loving and committed to the well-being of their children and their children’s mother.
• Children are the most vulnerable members of our society.