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    21st Century Dads: A Father's Journey to Break the Cycle of Father Absence
    21st Century Dads: A Father's Journey to Break the Cycle of Father Absence
    21st Century Dads: A Father's Journey to Break the Cycle of Father Absence
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    21st Century Dads: A Father's Journey to Break the Cycle of Father Absence

    By David A. Hirsch

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    For David Hirsch, the Dads Honor Ride was a daunting 2,300+ mile, 21-day journey to honor dads and raise awareness for the importance of fathers and father figures. With an estimated 24 million kids growing up without their dad in the home, the ripple effect is a higher incidence of drug and alcohol abuse, incarceration and crime, depression, and suicide. The cycle of father absence is devastating the lives of countless youth, crushing families, and crippling communities.
    With passion, discipline, and courage David takes us along on the Dads Honor Ride journey from Santa Monica to Chicago. He shares personal reflections about overcoming fear, his struggles to find his identity, forgive his own absent father, and break his family's cycle of father absence. More actuary than athlete, David pushed himself past his own limits, crossing paths with sages, saints, and veterans, as well as dads of different backgrounds. Along the way, he discovered that the journey of fatherhood is filled with potholes, flat tires, wrong turns, and closed roads that all contain valuable lessons. Hoping to shed light on the dark statistics that are the children of absent fathers, David has become a formidable voice for 21st Century Dads.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Books Press
    Release dateMay 29, 2016
    ISBN9781941799369
    21st Century Dads: A Father's Journey to Break the Cycle of Father Absence
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    David A. Hirsch

    David A. Hirsch is the father of five young adults, works full-time as a wealth advisor at UBS, and is the founder of 21st Century Dads Foundation whose mission is: Improving the lives of children by raising awareness and resources for greater father involvement, and inspiring dads to be present; physically, emotionally, financially, and spiritually. He also is founder of the 19-year-old Illinois Fatherhood Initiative, the country's first state wide non-profit fatherhood organization. All proceeds from this book benefit the 21st Century Dads Foundation.

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