Founder and CEO Arcadio Santana created “Fathers Are Important” in the summer of 2019. The purpose of Arcadio creating “Fathers Are Important” was due to his experience with Parental Alienation. His experience with Parental Alienation and hearing many other fathers with stories similar to his, and at times worse, made him create a platform for all fathers to use therapeutically to let their voices be heard. He started by creating Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter. Arcadio’s most success came from when he began the Fathers Are Important Instagram Live podcast show for all fathers to be a part of and share their testimonials of parental alienation that they went through. Eventually, his Instagram live podcast show grew more and more within days, weeks, and months with more followers. His big moment during the COVID-19 pandemic was meeting virtually and teaming up with an Instagram celebrity called Indi Remy (@indiremy_comedy). Indi Remy created a “Fathers Are Important” post for the platform that made it go viral on many social media platforms. The post was called “Let’s address accountability,” Where she posted about women alienation their kids from their fathers. Shortly after, Arcadio met Andre Rainey, the former Mayor of Peekskill, New York. Together they both had a great friendship, eventually reaching the point where Arcadio appointed Andre Rainey as Vice President of Fathers Are Important. With Andre’s assistance, Arcadio and Andre created a protest on June 21st, 2022, in front of Suffolk County Family Court. Together, their goal is to go to legislation in hopes of getting a shared parenting bill passed in New York and eventually across the world.
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