Episode 74. Special Fathers Network, Dad to Dad Podcast

In today's episode, I chat with David Hirsh of the Special Fathers Network, a dad-to-dad mentoring program for fathers raising children with special needs as well as host of the Dad To Dad Podcast.  David was raised by his mother, a Chicago Public School Teacher after his parents divorced. He is grateful to both his mother and maternal grandfather Sam Solomon for positively impacting his and his brother's lives.  David married his high school sweetheart Peggy and after the birth of their fifth child, he began to feel pressure at work but mostly on the home front as he sought to become a good role model to his kids and not replicate his early life experience. Concurrently during this time, David committed to a three-year Kellogg Fellow Program and he came across some astonishing statistics. There are 24 million kids growing up in America in father-absent homes, which accounts for 4 in 10 households(Source).  This began David's journey to break the cycle of father absence and to advocate for dads to be present: physically, emotionally, and spiritually, while also meeting our financial obligations. Resources: https://www.4dads.org/ https://21stcenturydads.org/ Transcript to this episode