14. A Law Enforcement Officer on What Happens When Dads Aren't There | Daven Woodard

From Dadical · 01:12:31

Show by Seth Stoker

Davin Woodard grew up in Baton Rouge, raised by a single father who scheduled his vacation days around his son’s football games. At 18, Davin walked into the largest parish jail in Louisiana and spent the next several years learning more about human behavior than most people absorb in a lifetime.Now a detective and TikTok creator at Save Fatherhood, Davin has seen the pipeline from every angle -- the jail, the streets, and now investigations. And the through-line he keeps finding is the same one: a missing father.In this conversation, Davin shares what it was like to manage 120 men at 18 years old and the lesson that changed everything -- that those men weren’t bad guys, they were just humans who’d never been given the right tools. He talks about what fatherlessness actually looks like up close, why men without a male role model treat authority as a threat, and the juvenile wing moment that made it impossible to call it coincidence.He also talks about his own dad -- a shift-working single father he calls the closest thing to God he knows -- and what it meant to always be able to look up in the stands and find him there.If you’ve ever wondered what the data on fatherlessness looks like in real life, Davin has seen it. And he’s doing something about it.

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