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200639 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.200639 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 2025-05 14 pages Atencio, Sofia Vega, Sujey Barca, Lisa Barrett, The Honors College Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation School of Social Transformation School of Life Sciences The number of single father households in the United States continues to rise every year, but there remains a significant lack of discussion on the experiences of single fathers and their children. This paper explores the lives of single fathers raising daughters through analysis of a film, an oral history, autoethnography, and scholarly articles. Household duties were used as markers of analysis to explore how the households of single fathers function. Specific attention was given to cooking, household labor division, economic status, emotional labor, and the role that gender and class play in workload division. Findings indicated that the film analyzed did not accurately depict the lives of single fathers, especially in the realms of cooking and emotional labor, suggesting a need for more accurate representations of single fatherhood in popular media. Findings also showed that single fathers face different challenges than single mothers, and thus single fathers and single mothers cannot be clumped together when designing interventions to support single parents. This project concluded with a proposed tool to support adolescent daughters of single fathers. The tool would be a mobile app that would function as a supportive discussion space where daughters of single fathers could gather together to share advice, stories, frustrations, etc with the ultimate goal of using peer support to boost the wellbeing of the app’s users. Single fathers Daughters of Single Fathers American studies Mobile App Interdisciplinary Analysis The Partnerless Patriarch's Pad: An Analysis of the Domestic Lives of Single Fathers with Daughters and a Proposed Tool for Their Benefit