; Whereas publicly available pregnancy and birth education help fathers access accurate and up-to-date information about childbirth and properly support pregnant people as birth partners; Whereas a father’s skin-to-skin contact just after birth and in the months following birth has been shown to support and improve the health and development of a newborn, improve a father’s mental health, and foster father-child bonding in the short and long term; Whereas fathers are biologically hard-wired to be nurturers, and experience a decline in testosterone and a surge in estrogen throughout the prenatal and postpartum periods; Whereas studies show that engaging fathers in conversations about safe sleep guidelines can help increase safe sleep and reduce infant deaths; Whereas providing fathers with guidance about infant crying and the risks of shaken baby syndrome can reduce infant deaths; Whereas a father’s active support of breastfeeding greatly increases the chances of successful breastfeeding, which improves the physical and mental health of babies and mothers, and reduces the risk of SUIDs; Whereas removing barriers to father engagement can encourage greater involvement during pregnancy, delivery, and parenthood such as— (1) removing obstacles related to employment and loss of income, such as lack of paid family leave; (2) offering moderated father support groups and classes; (3) changing messaging about societal perceptions about fathers’ roles in pregnancy and parenting; and (4) health care providers offering prenatal appointments outside of regular work hours, through telehealth or through take-home, father-focused resources; Whereas intimate partner violence (IPV) is a leading cause of maternal death and fathers who are engaged in their partner’s care and are invested in their baby’s health and development are less likely to engage in IPV, and later, in child abuse; Whereas 54 percent of pregnancy-associated suicide deaths involve IPV