Charities warn that support services sideline teenage dads

Teenage fathers are being ignored by “mother-centred” support services that treat young men as “invisible”, a report by a consortium of charities has warned.

The report by the Family Strategic Partnership, whose members include Barnardo’s and The Family and Parenting Institute, says services from pregnancy care to housing support “are driving fathers apart from their children through a culture where fathers are not valued”.

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