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working on non-profit status

We have been mostly quiet here at Why Not Fathers.  Rest assured things have been busy. Currently we are working on incorporating Why Not Fathers as a non-profit.  We are hoping that this will open up opportunities for speaking and further engagement. Potential speaking engagements include the following topics: fatherhood adoption – both as a parent and as a child autism reactive attachment disorder autoimmune disorders – Lupus. advocacy stay at home dad using social media to connect with others who are experiencing similar events disability and you taking care of your own mental health working with the school to achieve a middle ground I am sure that there are other topics that aren’t mentioned here, so please don’t take this list to be all inclusive   Tweet #fighting4answrs

Dreams and other things

Each night, as I lay down to sleep, I dream that I hear David moving around in the house.  He hasn’t been home since October 3, but still.  I feel the urge to get up and check on him.  To shine my light near where his head ought to be. My nightly ritual used to entail a book, a light, a flashlight, slippers, and my pj’s.  I would check on David, then curl up in a chair near his sleeping form and read.  The flashlight was because he could be sneaky, and I might need to shine the light somewhere quick. Then I got a Kindle Fire.  Didn’t need the light anymore. 🙂  as long as it was charged, I was good to go. David has the knack for sneaking around.  he got be more times than I could count, and since he is an amateur locksmith, a part of

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Who makes major life decisions

for our son? Turns out, it may not necessarily be his mother or myself. Quite frankly, it may not be the team of psychiatrists or other professionals associated with his case. It for sure doesn’t seem to be the psychiatric residential treatment center where he is a resident, or the school where he is in attendance. So then who is it?  Is it some bureaucratic policy that is defined by people who have no knowledge or understanding of our son?  Yep.  You guessed it.  There is this small thing called a Certificate of Need.  If the certificate gets denied, he gets booted from the facility. Why? It isn’t up to the facility.  Since David was a Special Needs adoption, he qualified for Medicaid until he turns 18.  That is in his adoption decree. We knew going into the adoption that he was a special needs child.    Do you know what

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