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Year: 1997

To provide all support possible to fathers to be the most effective and engaged dads they can be – creating a happier healthier, safer future for our children/tamariki.

To work with families by helping individual fathers work towards the best relationship they can have with their children under the given circumstances, supporting and actively helping them to remove barriers impeding this goal, and making information available that helps their parenting. To work with organisations by working towards equal parenting opportunities for mothers and fathers, where family support services are accepting of the choices parents make in dividing the caring of their children between them and encourage a joint primary responsibility for their children. Father & Child has a focus on educating organisations delivering these services, working with them to achieve inclusive delivery. To work with communities by networking and encouraging fathers to share any parenting related issues with each other, to actively engage with their children, to be part of their local parenting communities and achieve confidence in parenting. Father & Child provides places where this can happen and disseminates typical fathers stories through magazine publications, the internet and other media.

The Father & Child Trust was founded in Christchurch (New Zealand) in August 1997 by a group of dads who wanted to bring a male perspective into child-raising, and to address the lack of support for New Zealand fathers. It was created to give us fathers any help they need, form networks of dads and kids, and make us feel good about the most important job in our lives. We aren’t preachy and don’t lecture anyone on how to bring up their kids, but offer information for people to make their own choices.