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Reflections


Losing Mum

Posted on Blog by Colm Black · April 07, 2015 5:38 PM

Ferry-to-LarneExactly a year ago today at 3.15pm, I was on the Ferry to Larne, going home to visit my sick mother, when I received a call to say that she had passed away.

How to tell the children, who looked at me knowing the news was not good?

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My Illness

Posted on Blog by David Drysdale · March 27, 2015 6:36 PM

David and ManauOur CEO DAVID DRYSDALE shares some shocking personal news – and looks at the road ahead for Fathers Network Scotland and the Year of the Dad.

Hello all

Late last week I was told that I’ve got a rare and aggressive form of cancer (which explains the back pain I’ve been experiencing over the last few months). I’m now in a bed in the Western General hospital in Edinburgh having been pumped full of morphine and chemotherapy drugs.

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The Lost Son

Posted on Blog by Rob Brown · March 12, 2015 9:51 AM

Dad and Son on a HillBirth parents never forget the children they have lost to adoption. ROB BROWN tells the moving story of his search for the son he thought he’d never meet.

I was 18 when I fathered my first child. When my girlfriend first told me that she was pregnant, I felt very happy about becoming a father.

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Exile in a strange land

Posted on Blog by Colm Black · December 15, 2014 2:12 PM

Path of ExileCOLM BLACK talks honestly about the effect of burnout – and the everyday struggles of being a dad at home.

Exile, says the writer Eugene Peterson, is the experience of being where we do not wish to be. It can experienced at many levels: missing the last bus home, a dip in a relationship, the loss of a job, not being picked for a team. It is an experience of emotional and/or physical dislocation: I am where I do not wish to be. In exile.

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The myth of hard-to-reach dads

Posted on Blog by Karen Maxwell · November 25, 2014 2:23 PM

Detail Sistine ChapelResearching fatherhood in the context of social disadvantage, KAREN MAXWELL expected to be coaxing emotionally-repressed men out of their shells. But her “hard to reach” dads proved nothing of the kind…

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Our Journey of Adoption

Posted on Blog by Nick Thorpe · November 06, 2014 2:49 PM

Family shadow on the wallIn National Adoption Week, NICK THORPE reflects on adoptive fatherhood – the most challenging and fulfilling experience of his life…

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Time to get our hands dirty

Posted on Blog by David Drysdale · October 01, 2014 11:05 AM

David ManauFathers Network Scotland founder DAVID DRYSDALE sees huge potential – and an invigorating challenge – for dads in the wake of Scotland’s independence vote.

Whatever result you wanted from the recent referendum, it’s hard to deny the electrifying change it has brought to the way we engage with our country.

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From Fear to Paternity

Posted on Blog by Nick Thorpe · July 25, 2014 8:10 PM

Wingwalking WebresIntroducing NICK THORPE, journalist, travel writer, adoptive dad… and now National Development Officer for Fathers Network Scotland.

I love being a dad. It’s the hardest and richest thing I’ve ever done.

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Seeing Dad

Posted on Blog by Colm Black · August 27, 2012 10:45 AM

Sometimes I unexpectedly see

My long-dead Father

When I am fiddling.

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'And he being dead, yet speaketh.' A Father's Day Piece.

Posted on Blog by Colm Black · June 14, 2012 10:48 AM

Each time I close,

Each time I open

The curtains,

I see your picture

On top of the piano.

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