We’re very happy to share this amazing video trailer with our community here at BlackandMarriedWithKids.com. This film, Dear Daddy is currently in production from our friend Janks Morton (What Black Men Think, Men II Boys, We Need To Talk). After the trailer are more details on the film and how you can get involved with spreading the word and supporting this film. These stories must be told!
SYNOPSIS:
The continuation of the dialogue that must happen in order for there to be a reconciliatory healing in the African American Community. A generation of girls and women are carrying the burden of not being given there GOD given right to two parents caring, loving, and raising them in the same home…
WHY IS THIS THE CRITICAL ISSUE?
82.3% is the number of African American children born since 1990 that will not live in the same home as their biological fathers before graduating High School. Today, a generation of African American youth, have not had sustained access to positive paternal or male role models. Consequently, the concept of a residential father is often too removed from these children’s reality. Many of us know the statistics; too many of us have attempted to affect the multiple social, economic and educational dilemmas facing the African American community.Through outreach media, iYAGO Entertainment Group has dedicated its works to familial healing and reconciliation.
WHAT IS DEAR DADDY ABOUT?
Dear Daddy is a feature length documentary about the life long effects of fatherlessness on women. The film follows the dramatic journeys of eight young women from the tough city streets of Washington,DC as they struggle to overcome poverty, poor educational systems, no healthcare, and the most difficult life circumstance they have been dealt… the absence of their fathers.
Dear Daddy is not only about the struggles to survive and navigate as a young woman of color, but at its core, it’s about the importance of a father’s role in the lives of their daughters.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
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Powerful!
OMGoodness this breaks my heart. I feel so blessed to have had my father in my home and to have my husband at home raising my son right along with me. The things we often take for granted as being they way it’s “supposed to be” is sadly not a reality for so many. This HAS to be told. Thank you Janks for stepping up.
That was the most heart wrenching thing I have seen in a long time. I know a little of how this feels, and it’s not just the little girls that need the relationship of their father so do the young men being raised without them. It is really sad.
I’m going to show this to my daughters so they can understand and appreciate their daddy just a little more…wow!! They can take him for granted at times……..not realizing how blessed they are to have him….THAT PAIN IS REAL!!
Excellent job of getting across her pain and the affect of his decision to be absent. I am eager to find out what he has to say for himself.
Powerful segment! Shows the heartbreak that results from father absence in the home. Will she know what to look for in a husband? Will she know what real love looks like? Conversations have to begin!
When and where will the made cycle end? How do we as mothers , aunts, grandmothers, tell our youth it has to began and end with them. My daughter told me she refuse to bring a child in the world with out a father in the home. A real Dad! though marriage.
When and where will the made cycle end? How do we as mothers , aunts, grandmothers, tell our youth it has to began and end with them. My daughter told me she refuse to bring a child in the world with out a father in the home. A real Dad! though marriage.
When and where will the made cycle end? How do we as mothers , aunts, grandmothers, tell our youth it has to began and end with them. My daughter told me she refuse to bring a child in the world with out a father in the home. A real Dad! though marriage.
So sad the black are attracted to worthless men and have children with them. When will it end ??!
Worthless men come in all shades of color, there’s some deadbeats in all races.
So sad that black women are attracted to worthless men and they have multiple babies by them !! When will it end ??
OK,here is my issue with that story .I didn”t like her comments about her dad,true enough
he should have been there /We need to help teach them about how to be strong in bad
situations and how to choose our words.And why don” people talk about the good DAD
that loves and pay child care the MOM of the child don”t even let you see ypur child .I”m
tired of everyone pointing finger at the DAD lets look at both sides.ZThe truth be told the
ladies are getin away with a lot,then the child say why you never did this or that you don”t
love me and got nerve enough to say I HATE YOU.Come on people preasure bust a pipe.THe
courts are loaded ready to drop the HAMMER on the BLACK FAMILY BECAUSE THE MAN
AND THE WOMAN WANT DIE DIE TO THEMSELVES THE FLESH,AND WORKOUT THE ISSUES
SO THE BLACK CHILD CAN GROW UP IN A 2 PARENT HOME BUT,KEEP MAKIN AMERICA RICH
THE ONLY WAY TO KEEP BLACKFAMILIES TOGETHER AND HAVE MONEY YOU MUST PUT
PRIDE 6FEET DEEP………
ALWAYS TRUTH,
@ Always Truth This story is about her pain…the pain of a child that feels abandoned by their parent. Yes, we should all learn to choose our words. However not all children are adult enough in mind to truly understand the power of their words or how to accept the situation as it is. This young lady does not understand why she has been left…doesnt understand why the support and love is not there from the very man (and yes in some cases woman) that gave her life. You have to expect that the emotions will be raw and every word spoken will not be as mature or as forgiving as an adult. Children are sooo fragile and this clip truly sheds light to how deeply wounded one can be by not having the love of the people that GOD gave us to for nurturing, love and support. Even now as adults, many of us can see that young lady in ourselves. There are many, many adult men and women who are still to this very day wounded by their parents and it continues to affect their actions and decisions. It will continue until the wound is healed. Not necessarily by the parent recognizing the error of their ways and changing, but by truly forgiving and freeing themselves of the bondage and pain. This takes time and has to be taught and shared. What you said is true… There are many women who are either not there or attempt to sabatoge the father/child relationship. Yes, that should be highlighted. Agreed. But THIS clip is about something different which needs to be shared also.