Invisible Man: A Dad’s Perspective
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A dad shares his experience of feeling invisible as he supports his pregnant wife and unborn child.
Too often, Black women struggle to be heard by the maternal health community. For Black fathers, the situation is even worse. In this clip, one dad shares his experience of feeling invisible as he tries to support his pregnant wife and unborn child.
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Invisible Man: A Dad’s Perspective
Clip: Season 18 Episode 1 | 1m 21sVideo has Closed Captions
Too often, Black women struggle to be heard by the maternal health community. For Black fathers, the situation is even worse. In this clip, one dad shares his experience of feeling invisible as he tries to support his pregnant wife and unborn child.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipFLUELLEN: Hospitals are strange places.
I think for Black men, every time we've gone to the hospital, I'm not assumed to be husband, right?
And... sometimes, people may not even talk to me at all or include me.
So certainly, when the first time we went, even though there was a lot going on, somebody should have been talking to me earlier about what was going on with my wife.
And it wasn't until they saw, like, the hospital saw our community support, we had two doctors in the hospital that kind of knew us, that people started to actually treat me like I mattered, right?
And I think that... ...and I talked to some young fathers about this.
Like, when you go to, you know, doctor's visits, how to be respectfully assertive, right?
How to make sure you're included.
How to make sure people are looking at you without scaring people at the same time, 'cause there's that element of fear sometimes that people will have when they look at me, like, "Oh, "Black man, I'm afraid.
"I don't actually think you're husband, I don't think you're educated," and you gotta navigate all of that.
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