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"Melancholy"
Sculpture by Albert Gyorgy
At Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Bereaved Fathers Supporting Each Other
Welcome
Welcome to Fathers Forever, an organization of and for men who have experienced the death of their child.
Fathers Forever is not a ‘therapy’ group. Rather, we are survivors of a uniquely traumatic loss who have chosen to channel our energy, pain and hope into something constructive.
Fathers Forever’s mission is part fellowship; part advancing research/understanding of what fathers experience (vs. mothers) upon the death of a child (there’s virtually no literature specific to this topic); and part “education” and empathy for men living through it, regardless of where they may be on the path.
Thank you for visiting our site; we appreciate your interest. For those of you who unfortunately are members of the Fathers Forever “fraternity”, please participate to whatever degree you feel comfortable. You are welcome here.
Mélancolie
Albert_György, 2012
Lake Geneva, Switzerland
Fathers Forever was founded over 20 years ago by four men in the Boston area who met in a bereavement therapy group; all had recently lost young children to various causes. We became friends, and decided to extend our relationship and work outside a therapeutic setting.
We realized that there is little organized support for, or research and literature specifically about, fathers who have suffered the loss of a child. (Women are, by and large, much better communicators and networkers, especially when it comes to personal and highly emotional matters.) We believe this is an unfortunate oversight because, as individual as the grieving process is — and as stereotypically “tough” and self-reliant as many men can be — it is extremely difficult to go through your child’s death alone.
Those of us on this path know well that there is no life experience that compares to the death of one’s child; therefore, it can help to connect with other men who are walking that path. Fathers Forever seeks to be a forum for men who “get it” to interact with each other, learn from and share with each other.