Dads4Kids – Fatherhood Foundation

Warwick Marsh presents Dads4Kids every weekday at 7:45am.

More info: www.dads4kids.org.au

Warwick Marsh is a family man who loves to worship God. He is based in Wollongong, Australia with his wife Alison and five grown children.
Both Warwick and his wife are ministers accredited with Australian Christian Churches. The family toured for many years as a band called ‘The Marshes’, and have recorded several worship and outreach albums over the years.

Warwick received the Festival of Light ‘Fatherhood of the Year’ Award in 1998. Warwick has been the national coordinator for ‘National Praise & Worship Conferences’ and 24 hour worship/prayer events such as the Praise Corroboree, involving Indigenous Christians and national leaders at Australia’s Parliament House in the 1990s.

Warwick has travelled with his family and ministered in over a dozen countries around the world and over the last 4 or 5 years has produced twenty outreach TV programs.

Warwick and his family share a dream to reach a billion people with the good news of God’s love through TV, teaching and music ministry over the next five years.

In 2002 Warwick & his wife began the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation, a non profit charity to inspire fathers and renew families and turn the hearts of the fathers back to their children according to Malachi 4:6, a verse in the Bible that played a big part in their inspiration.

The cost of fatherlessness and the associated harm caused by fatherlessness is very high in emotional, physical and monetary terms. The lack of an involved, protective, committed, responsible and loving father has been shown through social science research to contribute to an increase in child poverty, child sexual abuse, child emotional abuse, child physical abuse, child and adult drug abuse, child and adult increase in suicide, child and adult self harm, and much other destructive and abusive human behaviour.

The harmful effects of fatherlessness have been documented in ‘Fathers in
Families’ (c) Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation, second edition June 2005. The preamble to The 12pt Plan, from the same document, says, “Fatherlessness can be defined as the absence of an active, positive father-influence in the lives of children. Fatherlessness is both a natural and spiritual problem.

It needs strategic and synergistic partnerships that should involve government, business, church, community, faith-based charities and secular charities and many others working together to strengthen and support Australian fathers.” It might be noted that the above quotation from the preamble to The 12pt Plan was formed by over two dozen different delegates representing both faith based and non faith based charities and groups who unanimously voted to support the above statement and all of the policy directions as stated in The 12pt Plan. The 12pt Plan came out of the
historic Fatherhood Forum convened by the Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation, 10th February 2003, Federal Parliament, Canberra.

Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation is a tax deductible entity and harm prevention charity fully authorised by the Australian government which has developed a solid track record of achievement. Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation has played an historic role in the work of restoring and strengthening Australian fathers. Dads4Kids invites people everywhere to work with them to turn the tide of fatherlessness by promoting excellence in fathering. Dads4Kids goal is to make excellence in fathering the norm of everyday life in Australia and be a fatherhood resource for the rest of the world. Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation believes that promoting excellence in fathering is the most cost effective way to reduce the risk of harm and
abusive behaviours within the broader community. Our children deserve the best – why not give it to them?