http://www.fatherhood.gov/
I consider myself pretty savvy about government websites being as I'm an Early Childhood Educator and use some to gather statistics.
But I wondered if anyone ever heard of this site outside of DC and actually used it? It's been around since Clinton's time. It's a site that is taxpayer funded. And I've never heard of it. So many non-profits have great pro-dad websites that I wonder why as a taxpayer I'm funding this particular one? It has a library search engine for locating journal articles, but any library can help you with that and only researchers would generally use it.
So I thought maybe it's helpful for dads to connect with a program in their state and so I followed the directions to locate them. One was a parenting site for Indiana and the other one was the Indiana Department of Corrections!!! Yes, that is a site that dads should contact as a program to help them be a better father. (sarcastic emoticon inserted here!)
Then I wondered how many other things are already being done well better by others and yet we as taxpayers are funding identical or lesser quality websites and programs?
Thoughts? Or am I off-based?
