Families Need Fathers (FNF) is a registered UKcharity, founded in 1974. It provides information and support to parents, including unmarried parents, of either sex.
FNF is chiefly concerned with the problems of maintaining a child's relationship with both parents during and after family breakdown, and has acquired over 10,000 members in its 30-year history.
The group's volunteer members offer advice to parents, which aims to be child-centred. Hence the advice here originally worked out by children who took part in a divorce survival class:
Don't ask us what happened while with the other parent
Don't ask us to keep secrets
Don't put us in a position where we have to tell lies
Don't ask us to take sides
Don't take out your anger on us
Don't get into competition with one another
Do allow us to love both parents without being got at by either
Don't ask us to choose between you
"Families Need Fathers has become a key player in the debate about on-going contact and joint residence." Rt Hon Lord Justice Wall [1] (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmconst/uc1247-i/uc124702.htm)
FamiliesNeedFathers (FNF) is a registered charity providing information on shared parenting issues arising from family breakdown and support to divorced and separated parents, irrespective of gender or marital status.
For a father, family breakdown can mean the loss of his children (and in many cases his home), protracted litigation over contact - often involving substantial legal fees - and the shock of finding himself suddenly labelled an 'absent' father.
FNF seeks to address the problems faced by non-resident parents, and to influence public opinion by raising awareness of the inadequacy of the current family justice system and its effect upon divided families, both parents and children alike.
FNF is a self-help support group, and is involved in research into shared parenting, and political lobbying [1].
FNF is chiefly concerned with the problems of maintaining a child's relationship with both parents during and after family breakdown, and has acquired over 10,000 members in its 30-year history.
Undoubtedly, the majority of parents apart from children are fathers, but the charity supports both fathers and mothers and other family who have lost contact with children, and works with MATCH (Mothers Apart from Their Children), and the Grandparents’ Association.
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