Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood

This webpage provides resources to support TANF programs in supporting positive outcomes for families by providing strategies to align and partner with Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) programs.
Young daughter with her mother, father and dog, enjoying together in park.
Research-To-Practice Brief

Authored by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill. This article is found in the Brookings Institution Policy Brief entitled Welfare Reform and Beyond #28. In this brief, the authors contrast making cash and related forms of public assistance more…

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This program sought to review grants given by the OCSE to implement responsible fatherhood programs to encourage fathers to pay child support by increasing employment and income, encouraging more involvement in parenting, and motivating child…

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The Centre for New Black Leadership, the Executive Directors Association of OIC of America, and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternal organization, in a joint partnership with the Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and…

Research-To-Practice Brief

BSF works with state/local partners to develop or refine interventions to promote healthy marriage among interested unwed parents at or near the birth of their child.

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Through Mathematica Policy Research, this paper reviews data on who these fathers are and their involvement with their families. Mathematica conducted 108 observations of fathers with children under 14 months. The findings speak to programs that…