Dwyane Wade:

Basketball Star Turned Beacon of Fatherhood

In many ways, basketball superstar Dwyane Wade leads a double life. On the court, he’s a NBA mega-star for the Miami Heat, but off the court, he’s a hands-on single dad to his two young sons and a nephew.

The moms at school drop off didn’t know what to make of him at first.
“I was like one of the only dads,” Wade says with a smile. “Everybody was looking at me, it was kind of weird. They called me ‘Mr. Mom’ for a while.”

Wade is reaching out to fathers and sons through community groups and his non-profit organization, Wade’s World Foundation, to combat the jaw-dropping statistic that 72 percent of African-American kids are being raised by a single parent, mostly women.

Now this is a man to be admired. With all of the deadbeat dads in this world he has stepped up to the plate (or hoops) and is doing what a father should do.

It has nothing to do with the fact that he is a multimillionaire; he is doing what he was deprived of as a kid and conducting himself the way he thinks a father should do.

I watched a segment on TV last night about the superstar and he is truly into what his is doing. So much so that he is going around doing seminars attempting to make what he is doing contagious to others.

If we had more fathers like Dwyane around, there would be a lot less bums on the street and fewer cells in the cross bar hotel occupied.

Dwyane is a great example of what a father should be!!!!