Covered...The Fatherless Athlete

After spending eight years in the National Football League, Keion Carpenter ended his career with the Atlanta Falcons. Growing up with an absentee father, Mr. Carpenter knows the struggle of being a fatherless athlete and uses his platform to address this epidemic that has ruined the family structure.

After the birth of his firts child, Mr. Carpenter vowed to never allow his children to face the same obstacles. His goal is to help parents understand the pressure, confusion and miguided anger that is associated with being raised in a fatherless enviornment. There is no one way to raise your child, but Keion Carpenter hopes that his journey will give his readers a better understanding. Follow Mr. Carpenter's career from beginning to end and get inside of the helmet of a fatherless athlete.