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Article: Seminar aims to help dads stay connected
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 7, 2001
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Seminar aims to help dads stay connected, be nurturers
By GARY RUMMLER
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Wednesday, November 7, 2001
Fathers are so important to the development of children that even
unwed fathers estranged from the mother should be encouraged to stay
connected to their children, speakers told about 200 people attending
a three-day conference sponsored by the Milwaukee Fatherhood
Collaborative, a group of 33 agencies.
And if a father is not available, substitute a father-figure, the
speakers said.
"Men are nurturers," explained Demetrius Brown, of UW Extension.
"We just nurture differently. We flip them around, throw them up in
the air, spin them on our finger, but that is ...