The new state budget includes $20 million to promote the role of fathers in children’s lives. That’s on top of the $2.5 million funding for the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood. But supporters say they think it will be money well spent.
The Responsible Fatherhood Initiative will administer the $20 million to groups that backers said have experience and results with programs that are already in place.
Senate President Rob McColley (R-Napoleon) said there are connections between fatherlessness and things like community poverty and crime rates, child behavioral problems and incarceration…