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.
- 15dads celebrated
- 32sources cited
- 25publishers
- 0paid placements
The dad who went and built the medicine his daughter needed
Told his daughter would not live past two, he quit the safe job, co-founded a biotech from nothing, and helped bring the drug that saved her to market.
John Crowley, New Jersey, USARead his story
The dad who answered nine hours with nine endurance challenges
His daughter Norah lived nine hours. In her name he ran, climbed and walked nine gruelling events, raised £87,000 for baby-loss charities, and started talking to other grieving dads.
Points of Light, UK Government · HertsLive +1
The dad who spent five hours in the snow so his daughter could get inside
He and his wife have adopted nine children, all with special needs. When the snow came, he built a fort his daughter could wheel straight into.
CBS News · Good Morning America
The basketball dad who taught himself tennis to coach his daughter
He had never played the game. He studied the careers of the greats, moved the family to Florida, and coached his daughter from six years old to the top of world tennis.
Good Morning America · TODAY
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.
ABC News · CNN
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.
Good Morning America · CNN
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.
Global News · Fox 59
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.
South West Londoner · Good Good Good
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.
CBS News · CNN
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.
OPB · The Dad
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.
My Modern Met · Greek Reporter
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.
People · Massachusetts General Hospital
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.
ABC News · Simon & Schuster
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.
Business Insider · Entrepreneur
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.
ABC News · FOX6 MilwaukeeHow we verify
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