Massachusetts Needs Fathers

Massachusetts Family Institute has been dedicated to strengthening the family in the Commonwealth for 30 years.  The latest census data and social science research confirm that children do best when they are raised in a home with both their mother and their father, and it is part of our mission to ensure that those facts get a hearing.   In June 2008, then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama addressed the crisis of fatherlessness by lamenting that "[w]e know the statistics – that children who g

Massachusetts Family Institute has been dedicated to strengthening the family in the Commonwealth for 30 years.  The latest census data and social science research confirm that children do best when they are raised in a home with both their mother and their father, and it is part of our mission to ensure that those facts get a hearing.   In June 2008, then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama addressed the crisis of fatherlessness by lamenting that "[w]e know the statistics – that children who g…