A 37-year U.S. cohort study of 1,648 men published in the American Journal of Public Health found that Black fathers were half as likely to die by middle age as Black men without children, though this protective link didn’t appear in White men. However, becoming a father before age 30 was associated with more than four times the mortality rate among Black fathers and lower cardiovascular health scores among White fathers, highlighting an urgent need for public health programs tailored to young d