Third, when fathers are involved, not only are these risks reduced, but the likelihood of positive outcomes are increased across a child's entire life cycle. Fourth, despite such knowledge, government programs have implicitly ignored the importance of involved fathers. In 1993, for example, the Department of Health and Human Services conducted the most extensive and expensive study ever of parent involvement in Head Start. Not one, reinforcing the popular but incorrect assumption that low-income fathers are not interested in or available for their children. Now comes the proposed Fathers Count Act of 1998.
Marriage does foster more stable commitments of men to their children.
But without decent jobs men are much less likely to get married and much more likely to get divorced. The Shaw bill, along with the president's executive memorandum, sets the stage for a new bipartisan dialogue that could lead to groundbreaking federal support for effective fatherhood in America. Regardless of their affiliation, all politicians now are reaching across the aisle to wish Paxon and Kennedy good luck in their commitment to fatherhood. The Nanny State. For decades, this has been the Right's term of opprobrium for the liberal approach to social welfare problems.