This is exactly what I want my tax dollars paying for
I’d take that 100% of the time over many of the other things our tax dollars pay for. Plus, it’s just a website with resources for fathers in general, not a whole site dedicated to dad jokes.
Funding for the NRFC is provided through the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, which authorized the use of funds for “the development, promotion, and distribution of a media campaign to encourage the appropriate involvement of parents in the life of any child and specifically the issue of responsible fatherhood, and the development of a national clearinghouse to assist States and communities in efforts to promote and support marriage and responsible fatherhood.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deficit_Reduction_Act_of_2005
Evidently it’s reducing deficits!
Well, the bottom half of wage earners pay zero federal income tax, and around 90% of federal income taxes are paid by the top 10%.
Most people get more back than they had withheld all year. It’s most likely that these aren’t YOUR tax dollars, and if they are, YOUR contribution is likely microscopic.
The National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse is an Office of Family Assistance (OFA) funded national resource for fathers, practitioners, programs/Federal grantees, states, and the public at-large who are serving or interested in supporting strong fathers and families.
tbf the effort spent on the dad joke gizmo was probably like one dev having some fun compared to the rest of the site
Still a better use of our tax dollars than the hyper-bloated military budget.
I actually love that we have resourses like this.
My gripe is that they miss the mark by targeting new dads. The reason dad jokes are great is they are the first jokes your kid understands. So I would think dads of 4 to 9 year-olds would be a better target.
The high you feel when your kid cracks up at some offhand dumb joke can’t be bottled.
But the reason I love this as a resourse is that explaining jokes to a curious child develops connections in their head in a way that only a parenting rolemodel can really do. So even if it’s not laugh-out-loud funny to explain a joke, if your child tells you that they do not get a joke, first and foremost realize that is a vunerable admission. Buddies will rag on you for not getting it. Parents see a gap in their kids’ world experience that they can fill.
Somewhat broken on mobile. Classic government.
