Celebrating girl dads
Girl dads worth celebrating
Real dads doing remarkable things for their daughters, hand-picked and fact-checked. We add a new one every week.
The single dad who turned a ponytail into a movement
A single father taught himself to do his daughter’s hair, then opened a free class so no other dad would feel as lost as he once did.
Philippe Morgese, Daytona Beach Shores, FloridaRead his story
The dad who secretly earned a degree alongside his daughter
At 47 he quietly went back to university, earned a near-perfect degree, and surprised his family in a matching cap and gown at graduation.
The dad who built his daughter a hand
When prosthetics were out of reach, a North Carolina dad taught himself 3D printing and built his daughter a hand of her own.
The dad who got Britain’s fathers braiding hair over a pint
He found the first year with his daughter hard, so he started a pub night where dads learn to plait hair together. It went viral and became a movement.
The dad who built a whole theme park so his daughter could play
After watching his daughter be left out at a pool, he sold his companies and built the world’s first ultra-accessible theme park, free for anyone with a disability.
The dad whose daughter couldn’t use the playground, so he reinvented it
When his daughter’s walker got stuck in the wood chips, he founded a nonprofit that now builds radically inclusive playgrounds where every child can play.
The single dad who said yes to the baby twenty families turned down
A newborn girl with Down syndrome had been refused by more than twenty families. A single man in Naples took one look and called her his daughter.
The dad who runs every marathon with his daughter out in front
His daughter lives with a rare, life-limiting illness. So he straps her running chair to the start line and they cross every finish together, raising money for a cure.
The dad who refused to believe his daughter had nothing to say
For years his autistic daughter could not speak. Then, at ten, she typed her first words, and her father helped the world finally hear her.
The dad who built a better children’s vitamin for his own daughters
Fed up with the sugary, dye-filled vitamins on offer for his girls, he co-founded a kids’ health brand that grew into a quarter-billion-dollar business.
The 21-year-old who taught himself everything to raise his daughter alone
He became a single father at 21 when his daughter’s mum left. His raw, honest posts about figuring it all out made him a voice for single dads everywhere.