The Future of Single Dads & Technology: Family Ties?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: While the majority of solo parents are single mothers, up to 2.6 million families in the US are headed by single dads…The research on single fathers is limited. [healthline dot com] The Buzz 2: As a single dad, keeping a strong relationship between you and your child after a divorce is essential for your child’s wellbeing.…children are less likely to engage in delinquent behavior if their father is actively engaged in their upbringing. [Licensed psychologist Robert Goldman, pittsburghparent dot com] The Buzz 3: “I’ve experienced all the different roles you have to play when there’s nobody else around: a parent, a dad, a father, a stand-in mum, a confidant, always a butler or maid, a teacher and, most crucially, a friend.” [The Single Dad's Guide to the Galaxy by Roger McEwan] The Buzz 4: Support solutions specifically designed for single fathers are scarce. ACM research uses the Human-centered design methodology to engage single fathers in multiple research activities to gain insight into their support needs to inform potential designs for support interventions. [dl.acm dot org] The Buzz 4: In today’s digitally connected world, parents have to manage their own relationship with the internet and mobile devices, along with managing their children’s use of and exposure to the same technology. [pewresearch dot org] We’ll ask Karen Gibson, Dustin Droen, Jason Blount, and Reggie Waterman for their take on The Future of Single Dads & Technology: Family Ties?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:15.9	Welcome to technology revolution, the future of now.
0:27.1	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:30.5	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.4	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:35.6	Bonnie D. in the house, I always forget which direction I said was the past and the future,
0:39.6	but today I made a point of saying, I'm moving to my right. That's not a political statement.
0:43.4	I'm moving to my right. So that's where the future is. Welcome to the future of now,
0:47.1	Bonnie D. Happy to say that a wonderful little company called a plundio in Poland named this show
0:52.8	to their top 10 business and tech podcast for
0:56.1	entrepreneurs in the world. We're very proud. I got to meet them. I was on there, how we innovate
1:01.0	podcast recently. Go look it up on LinkedIn. They called me an artistic soul with a scientific
1:08.2	mind. My grown children thought that was very funny. I haven't heard from my grandchildren yet.
1:12.4	So we have an interesting topic for you today.
1:15.1	I want my panelists, I haven't introduced you yet,
1:17.3	but I want you all to wave because we are live on LinkedIn
1:20.2	and we are alive, hopefully on Facebook, there we go,
1:22.8	and somebody's coming to sweep the leaves off my front garden
1:25.6	and I hope he doesn't make too much noise,
1:27.0	good, he's quiet quiet there we go benefits of having a home office and broadcasting from home so we're going to talk
1:32.6	today about an interesting segment of the population I'm only referencing the U.S but I have a feeling
1:38.9	this applies all over the world single dads and I'm not defining the word single.
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