Government offers new help for fathers

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2007-01-31 15:36

Story here.

'KUSA – Community and faith-based organizations that help fathers can now sign up for a grant from the federal government.
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The department calls the grant “groundbreaking.”

“From our perspective, it’s the first time that we’ve actually had funding and resources available to fathers, particularly here in Colorado,” said Ruth Glenn with the Domestic Abuse Assistance Program for the Colorado Department of Human Services, “that really is geared toward services for them in the areas of parenting skills and healthy relationship building and really geared toward the final outcome, which is healthy children.”'

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> it’s the first time that we’ve actually had funding
> and resources available to fathers

Well, that's not quite true. We've had some programs around here (Colorado) for fathers for a long time - not sure where their funding comes from - and in spite of the high-sounding objectives they tend to be geared towards making the guys into better slaves, because that's what's best for mom and her litter.

I'm almost certain this new money is from the 2006 welfare bill re-authorization, which goes back to the 1996 welfare reform deal where the republican congress got some marriage promotion stuff worked in along with the stuff tracking welfare women into the workforce. When the bill was first reauthorized in 2002 (I think) Bush added in the faith-based angle. Sorry to be a bit fuzzy on this, but it's no real change; at worst it's only another waste of taxpayer money.

There just happens to be a story today on this same general topic over at AlterNet.org...

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Submitted by Martian Bachelor on Thu, 2007-02-01 07:07