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Jun 18, 2021 · Kevin Hart stars as Matt Logelin, a father who raises his baby girl after his wife dies on the day of her birth. The film is based on a true story and explores the challenges and joys of fatherhood.
- (43K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Paul Weitz
- 2021-06-18
Fatherhood is a 2021 American comedy-drama film directed by Paul Weitz from a screenplay by Weitz and Dana Stevens based on the 2011 memoir Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin.
- Cherish your time with them. One thing that will amaze you is how quickly the years will fly. My oldest daughter is 15, which means I have three short years with her before she leaves the nest.
- It gets easier. Others may have different experiences, but I’ve always found the first couple of months the most difficult, when the baby is brand new and wants to feed at all hours of the night and you often have sleepless nights and walk around all day like zombies.
- Don’t look at anything as “mom” duties — share responsibilities. While there are a lot of good things from our grandparents’ day that we should bring back, the traditional dad/mom split of parenting duties isn’t one of them.
- Love conquers all. This one sounds corny, but it should be at the center of your dad operating philosophy: above all, show your children love. When you’re upset, instead of yelling, show them love.
- Fatherhood is an expression (perhaps the ultimate one) of masculinity. For most of the 20th century, fatherhood served as a prime source of “feminization” of and for men, with male parents urged to embrace the values and techniques of motherhood.
- Fathers are integral to the wellbeing of a family. It may be obvious, but fathers truly matter. Through the first two centuries of the nation’s history, however, this was not believed to be the case, at least with regard to shaping the lives of children in a real, discernible way.
- Kids suffer without fathers. The flip side to the greater recognition of men as parents is the likely scenarios when they are not present. If men are integral to the emotional and cognitive development of their children, it makes perfect sense that kids will suffer psychically if they are not around.
- Fatherhood is generationally defined. A good percentage of men who have left their families no doubt had poor relationships with their own dads, making the problem a recurrent one across generations.
Apr 11, 2023 · Scientists are making up for lost time by finally releasing conclusive data about a father’s effect on his children. Almost daily, academic journals are publishing new data that illustrates how men can both help and hurt their children, and how to be a better dad.
Jun 14, 2024 · CNN — Many arguments about why dads should do more parenting focus on why that would be good for their wives or partners and kids. How about why and how it would be good for the dads themselves?...
A comedy-drama starring Kevin Hart as a widowed father who tries to raise his daughter on his own. See critics' ratings, trailer, cast, and streaming options for this fact-based story of fatherhood.
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- Comedy, Drama
- PG-13
