FAMILY FOUNDATION FUND
The Family Foundation Fund got started back in 1993 when Onnie Kirk began taking 2 young men to work with him. Onnie had become painfully aware of the demise of families in America and, especially in African-American communities. After extensive research, it became evident to him that the cause was the absence of fathers in the home.
SOME STAGGERING STATISTICS
10 Facts About Fatherlessness:
1 24 million children (36%) live absent of their biological father.
2 There are 17 million children (25%) living with their single mother.
4 Nearly 4 out of 10 first marriages end in divorce, 60% of divorcing couples have children. Over 1 million children each year experience the divorce of their parents.
5 One out of every six children is a step child.
6 There are nearly 1.9 million single fathers with children under 18.
8 26% of absent fathers live in a different state.
9 About 40% of the children who live in a fatherless home haven’t seen their fathers in at least a year. While 50% of children who don’t live with their fathers have never set foot in their fathers home.
10 Children who live absent of their biological fathers, on average, are more likely to be poor, experience educational, health, emotional and psychological problems, be victims of child abuse and engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live with their married, biological mother and father.
The Fatherless Account For:
• 63% of teen suicides
When a young man gets to a certain age, he begins to question his identity and what a real man is. Without a father’s guidance, statistics show that these men will experience significant emotional, physical, social and financial problems later in life. When these boys arrive at the Family Foundation Fund, they are generally lacking confidence and direction as well as being insecure. With the guidance of FFF and their surrogate father these boys will become secure and gain confidence. They will be able to take on life’s challenges.
The motto at FFF is “changing lives one boy at a time”. “They are good men who are going to be good husbands one day, good fathers, good citizens and good men of God.”
To learn more about the Family Foundation Fund visit their website at www.familyfoundationfund.org. They also have a Facebook page www.facebook.com/familyfoundationfund. Any donations can be made at http://familyfoundationfund.org/donate/.
THE PROGRAM
The Family Foundation Fund’s mentoring program is an intensive, multi-year, comprehensive commitment in which a mature, well-balanced Christian man acts as a surrogate father for an “at risk” youth who will have a long-term relationship and take an active interest in his life. A surrogate father will pray for him, advocate for him and be a presence in the rest of his life.When a young man gets to a certain age, he begins to question his identity and what a real man is. Without a father’s guidance, statistics show that these men will experience significant emotional, physical, social and financial problems later in life. When these boys arrive at the Family Foundation Fund, they are generally lacking confidence and direction as well as being insecure. With the guidance of FFF and their surrogate father these boys will become secure and gain confidence. They will be able to take on life’s challenges.
The motto at FFF is “changing lives one boy at a time”. “They are good men who are going to be good husbands one day, good fathers, good citizens and good men of God.”
To learn more about the Family Foundation Fund visit their website at www.familyfoundationfund.org. They also have a Facebook page www.facebook.com/familyfoundationfund. Any donations can be made at http://familyfoundationfund.org/donate/.
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