Dare To Be King :: What If The Prince Lives?

Dare To Be King :: What If The Prince Lives?

In 1995 Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problems by David Blankenhorn outlined the status of children and families in America. According to Blankenhorn and others like the Morehouse University Research Institute fatherlessness has reached epidemic proportions over the last 35 years.

It is estimated that 80 percent of all African-American children will spend part of their childhood living apart from their fathers. While an estimated seventy percent of African-American children are born to unmarried mothers and 40 percent of all children regardless of race, live in homes without fathers. For additional statistics on fatherhood and to get more information on up coming book signings or information on our Call for Submissions for I Am A Woman Now: Remembering Advice from My Father click (Fatherhood at a Glance).

These statistics coupled with the decline of the public educational systems and eroding communities, have created a destructive set of circumstances for adolescent and young adult African American males.

In order to break this vicious cycle of fatherlessness, the Dare To Be King Series focuses on working intensely with adolescent and young adult males to identify and challenge notions about:

• Manhood/masculinity	• Male pregnancy prevention
• Being a "thug/gangster"	• Fatherhood
• Growing up without a father	• Parenting
• Sex/sexuality	• Relationships

This work is offered to community groups, schools and churches as a series of workshop modules and other products that can be obtained to assist with the process of dealing with the “absent daddy club.”

Daddy's Girl: Remembering Advice From My Father

Hotep Press & Urban Leadership Institute are pleased to announce the release of Daddy’s Girl: Remembering Advice From My Father edited by David Miller, M.Ed. The book addresses the importance of fathers developing healthy emotional, spiritual and physical relationships with their daughters. Although Black fathers are often depicted as deadbeat, unavailable and/or missing, Daddy’s Girl provides memoirs from Black women across the country who share intimate advice and quotes they received from their fathers growing up. “Daddy’s Girl shatters the myth that Black fathers are not connected to their children,” states Jennifer Cowan, a single mother of three from Inglewood, California.

Contact us today to order your copy at toll-free 1-877-339-4300.

Lessons I Learned From My Father: A Collection of Quotes From Men of African Descent

A must read for educators, parents and youth whom struggle with the issue of fatherhood. The book contains quotes and advice from men of African descent from throughout the world whom are committed to family life and development.

The book addresses the issue of the "Absent Daddy Club." The absent daddy club represents millions of children whom do not have a responsible, sober, spiritually guided father in their life.

The forward of Lessons I Learned From My Father was written by Richard Rowe the Executive Director of the African American Male Leadership Institute an organization committed to working with males.

Contact us today to order your copy at toll-free 1-877-339-4300.

Teenagers And Attitudes Towards Fatherhood

This report provides greater evidence of the role that fathers play in society. Please click on the button below to view the report.



The statistics below provide a glimpse into the risk that males growing up without a father are faced with:		These statistics translate to mean that children from a fatherless home are:

• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes • 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes • 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes • 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes • 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes • 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes • 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes • 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home		• 5 times more likely to commit suicide • 32 times more likely to run away • 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders • 14 times more likely to commit rape • 9 times more likely to drop out of high school • 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances • 9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution • 20 times more likely to end up in prison.