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Save Family Foundation (SFF) & Men Welfare Trust (MWT), both registered NGOs under the aegis of Save Indian Family (SIF) movement, today celebrate The International Father’s Day 2018 with their campaign – #SelfieWithDad. The campaign aims at creating awareness and bringing to fore contributions and importance of fathers to their families and to the society, which are very often taken for granted. Father's Day is a celebration honouring fathers and celebrating fatherhood, enforcing paternal bonds, and highlighting the influence of fathers in society.



As part of the campaign, Save Family Foundation and Men Welfare Trust will organise several activities at India Gate today, June 17 2018 starting at 4:00 pm. These activities will involve engagement with families, painting competitions for children and several joint activities for children with their fathers. The event will conclude by a song such by a volunteer dedicated to the spirit of fatherhood.

Date: Sunday, June 17, 2018

Time: 4:00 pm onwards

Venue: Near Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate Lawns



Save Family Foundation and Men Welfare Trust also ran the #SelfieWithDad Campaign on Twitter and Facebook where they called people to post ‘Father and child’ selfie as a tribute to their fathers.



Speaking about the #SelfieWithDad Campaign, Mr Amit Lakhani, Founder President of Men Welfare Trust said, “I sometimes feel that as a society, we have failed to acknowledge the value of a father in a child’s life. Even those who understand this fail to express and tell our dads how much we love and care for them. Going further, through this initiative, we aim to spread awareness on shared parenting and child alienation which has today become a very serious social issue”.



He added, “There has been a sea change in the society and specially the family system in India in the last couple of decades and the Divorce rates are ever rising. This has resulted in a lot of Fathers being deprived from seeing their own children and the society is moving towards a Father-less society like in the west. It is only in our interests that the government urgently recognise the pain of Fathers and make laws that are in line with the current and ongoing changes in the society”.



Studies show that children coming from broken fatherless families are more prone resorting to drugs, alcoholism and crime; and, cases where children at a very young age are running away from homes, getting into juvenile crimes, drugs and prostitution.



Recommendations to the government by Save Family Foundation and Men Welfare Trust:

• Shared parenting to be Law in India as it is in most parts of the world; and guidelines by the Mumbai High-court on shared parenting to be strictly followed by other family courts across India

• Formation of ‘National Commission for Men’ to look into the rights of Fathers and rising suicides by the alienating fathers in India

• Ministry of Women and Child Development to recognise the rights of children to have access to their fathers for a balanced upbringing. Alternatively, create a separate Ministry (Ministry of Children) for looking at specific issue related to child rights