14. A Law Enforcement Officer on What Happens When Dads Aren't There | Daven Woodard

Dadical · Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 12m · transcript

Davin Woodard grew up in Baton Rouge, raised by a single father who scheduled his vacation days around his son’s football games. At 18, Davin walked into the largest parish jail in Louisiana and spent the next several years learning more about human behavior than most people absorb in a lifetime.

Now a detective and TikTok creator at Save Fatherhood, Davin has seen the pipeline from every angle -- the jail, the streets, and now investigations. And the through-line he keeps finding is the same one: a missing father.

In this conversation, Davin shares what it was like to manage 120 men at 18…