{"id":1433245,"date":"2022-04-12T13:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433245"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T17:16:36","slug":"gov-ron-desantis-takes-action-on-fatherhood-crisis-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-ron-desantis-takes-action-on-fatherhood-crisis-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis Takes Action on &#039;Fatherhood Crisis&#039; in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-ron-desantis-takes-action-on-fatherhood-crisis-in-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1433245&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277784183_561855215303391_5530926829431520636_n-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed legislation addressing the \u201cfatherhood crisis,\u201d making it clear that the Sunshine State will not follow anti-family propaganda but \u201cput\u00a0programs in place that support fathers and help families stay connected and engaged with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look over the last many decades, one of the worst social trends has been the decline of fatherhood, and we do have in many instances a fatherhood crisis in this country,\u201d DeSantis said, signing the \u201cChild Welfare\u201d bill <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2022\/7065\">H.B. 7065<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>In part, the bill requires the Department of Children and Families to \u201ccontract for the development and implementation of the Responsible Fatherhood Initiative\u201d and provides \u201cgrants to community-based not-for-profit organizations to offer certain mentorship programs,\u201d according to the bill\u2019s summary. It also designates June as \u201cResponsible Fatherhood Month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-bdVaJa dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-2 hLMqRF\">\u201cThis bill is tied to $70 million in funding to provide a wide array of family and youth support through our Department of Children and Families as well as our Department of Juvenile Justice,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThey will be working very closely to support fatherhood throughout our state.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe fact of the matter is when you take kids that do not have a father present during their upbringing, the chance of them dropping out of school, getting involved in trouble with the law, having other difficulties, increases dramatically,\u201d the governor explained during the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s been very, very obvious, that when fathers are present, when they\u2019re serving a productive\u00a0\u2014 helping to keep their kids in line when they\u2019re not\u00a0\u2014 it makes a real impact,\u201d he added, before blasting critics of the traditional family structure, citing the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow there\u2019s some who say that this is not that important,\u201d he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There was actually an article, a column in the <em>New York Times<\/em> that was titled \u201cThe Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.\u201d And you have other people that kind of pooh pooh the idea of father. I just want to be sure in Florida we are not going to be following this propaganda. We\u2019re gonna put programs in place that support fathers and help families stay connected and engaged with each other.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis bill is going to create a statewide awareness campaign to call attention to the importance of responsible fatherhood and to equip fathers with resources to stay engaged in their children\u2019s lives\u201d he said, adding that the bill will also \u201csupport case managers who will help fathers find employment, transition from incarceration, and to better manage their obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill takes those programs to the next level by increasing mentorship opportunities for at-risk youth. For many of these youths their mentor may be the only father figure that they have,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, this bill is not gonna solve everything, but I think it can help,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honor for me to be able to sign this,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd this is the type of stuff that, you know, doesn\u2019t always get the headlines on a daily basis, but this is the type of stuff that is so meaningful in the lives of so many people that the ramifications are really significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law will go into effect July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday signed legislation addressing the \u201cfatherhood crisis,\u201d making it clear that the Sunshine State will not follow anti-family propaganda but \u201cput\u00a0programs in place that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}