About Dads & Daughters

Dads & Daughters® makes the world safe and fair for our daughters. DADs improves the lives of fathers, daughters, and their families with outstanding educational resources supporting fathers’ involvement in girls’ lives and advocacy for girls’ well-being.

DADs’ tools and resources help develop supportive and healthy father-daughter relationships. Strong, positive relationships between daughters and their fathers and stepfathers helps girls increase their self esteem, gives them greater opportunities for self-fulfillment, delays the onset of puberty, and provides many other benefits—including improving the father’s health.

DADs publishes the award-winning Daughters®: For Parents of Girls, the only periodical for parents and professionals about raising healthy daughters – Daughters is read by tens of thousands of parents and adults who work with girls around the world.

DADs’ See Jane program advances gender balance in media for children ages 11 and under. See Jane uses advocacy & research—including the most comprehensive content analysis ever conducted with children’s movies, and persuading entertainment creators to correct problems.

DADs is the leading voice in media and policy, raising awareness of the power and potential within father-daughter relationships, and helping other fathers put their daughter’s face in the picture when crafting public policy and corporate practice. DADs has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, including The Today Show, Time, and People.

DADs received the 2005 Ann Bancroft Foundation Award for Support and Encouragement of the achievements of girls and women. Among its other awards and recognitions, DADs won The Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2004 Title IX Dad of the Year for supporting gender justice.