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Dear Friends,

 

Thank you for your interest and support of THE COUNCIL OF DADS.  I'm pleased that since our story has been shared around the world, millions have been touched and countless families have started Councils of Moms and Dads to help bring their friends closer to their children.  We have many features on councilofdads.com to help make that process easier.

 

To keep up with the times, we are making important changes to the site.  We are going to make it open to…

Bruce,

Congratulations  on your literary success!  I was very sorry to hear about your battle with cancer.  I read  Council of Dads and was very touched by your open dialogue with the readers especially since I was reading it shortly after my Mother had completed 8 grueling months battling Lymphoma.  During this time she and my Dad lived with me, my husband and 10 yr old son.  Early on in the treatment when I came close to…

I saw Mr. Feiler on Glenn Beck and I really love this concept in general. I am 5-1/2 mos. pregnant and due June 13, 2011, we are having a son Reagan Joshua. Both my husband and I come from very small families so I think this idea is great for both of us. Neither of us has a serious illness, but this has prompted me to think more about my son's life. I would love to see a book like this for mom's…

Hello everyone and thankyou for such a warm welcome

I hope I have come to the right place. I was guided to this site by a colleague who uses this site in her work with bereaved children. My name is Sam and I have three of the most beautiful boys God ever put on this earth who I am raising alone. I am not a widow, their father left us when our youngest son was a few days old. We lost him to a mental illness which I tried to nurse him through for two years before his illness…

Hello everyone and thankyou for such a warm welcome

I hope I have come to the right place. I was guided to this site by a colleague who uses this site in her work with bereaved children. My name is Sam and I have three of the most beautiful boys God ever put on this earth who I am raising alone. I am not a widow, their father left us when our youngest son was a few days old. We lost him to a mental illness which I tried to nurse him through for two years before his illness…

Daddy-bashing is suddenly cool. The cover story of the latest Atlantic proclaims "The End of Men: How Women Are Taking Control -- of Everything," while inside the magazine Pamela Paul poses the emasculating question, "Are Fathers Necessary?" Her answer, after sifting through the research: probably not. Social scientists have been unable to prove that dads contribute much, she reports. The effort and quality of parenting are what really matter, not parents' gender.

"The bad…

From the New York Daily News.

Bruce Feiler's twin daughters, Eden and Tybee, were 3 when he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in 2008. Just days afterward, the best-selling…

When my wife and I had identical twin daughters five years ago, we thought our friends would consider it "All Hands on Deck." Instead it was "Run the Other Way!" When I got cancer, we thought it would be "Run the Other Way." Instead we experienced the greatest act of friendship we ever felt.

When I learned I was sick, I worried about my three-year-old twin daughters. Would they wonder who I was? Would they yearn for my love? My voice?

I soon thought of a way I…

Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters’ lives might be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they lack for my approval, my discipline, my voice?"