(Feb. 23, 2009) -- "While I was getting ready for this deployment, it was pretty saddening to realize that I wasn't going to be able to be there in any way for the most important moment in our lives," writes David. "When Jenessa first told me about the Freedom Calls Foundation . . . I was pretty amazed." That reaction was nothing compared to his feelings when Gianna showed up.  "I was speechless and just hypnotized by her beauty," says the Marine. "It was as if everyone else in the world disappeared and she was the only one there."

(Feb. 23, 2009) -- Good news, dad! All those times your daughter appeared to be tuning you out? She was probably paying more attention than you thought. In fact, a new study co-authored by a researcher from North Carolina State University says the relationship between fathers and daughters is leading to an increase in the number of daughters who are pursuing careers in the same field as their dads.

(Feb. 22, 2009) -- “It’s like watching a movie happen right before my eyes,” dad Jeff Whitaker told TODAY. “It’s a real adventure. I never had the feeling that they would all be engaged together, but as soon as the youngest [got engaged] we had a fear, and then it worked its way up the ladder.”

(Feb. 22, 2009) -- Despite facing threats of disqualification, a 12-year-old girl took first place in a speech contest when she eloquently argued for the rights of unborn children – after an offended judge quit.

(Sept. 15, 2008) -- Sarah Buckel, 16, wanted to decorate the inside of the metal locker at her Pennsylvania school, so she asked her dad, Paul, the chief executive of a company that makes business card magnets, to create magnetic wallpaper for her.

(Feb. 22, 2009) -- So being a flower girl is a big responsibility, which requires a special dress, special shoes, special tights and a special hair thingie, and these items must, by tradition, take at least 17 hours to pick out at the department store. This was no problem in our case because there were two mothers AND a grandmother involved.

(Feb. 22, 2009) -- In the Obama White House, bedtime is still at 8 p.m. The girls still set their own alarm clocks and get themselves up for school in the morning. They make their own beds and clean their own rooms. And when the much-anticipated pet arrives, they will walk the dog and scoop its poop.

(Feb. 22, 2009) -- It started back in third grade with polite letters from the school principal to the East San Jose couple: Your daughter has had a series of unexcused absences; please contact us. Back then, Carol Reynoso and Jayvee Geronimo's youngest attended school about 80 percent of the time.  But the effort by the Alum Rock Union School District ended in a far less gentle way recently after Vanessa Geronimo's attendance in sixth and seventh grades dwindled to only two or three days a year.

(Nov. 23, 2008) -- Bob Allen already had a lot to be thankful for but a phone call he received three months ago not only changed his life but augmented his fortunes that much more: It was from the daughter he hadn’t seen in 32 years.

(Nov. 23, 2008) -- For several years, her father, Glenn, the fire inspector at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, has brought Stephanie to the annual Parris Island Rod and Gun Club turkey shoot. For the past three years, Glenn Guidroz has bought out the club's range for one round so his daughter can shoot several rounds and win a turkey.

(Nov. 23, 2008) -- Richard Jacobson opened his bedroom door Wednesday morning — and found a nightmare in the hall. Two masked men were there with handguns. One grazed his head with a bullet; another doused his screaming girlfriend with gasoline in her bed. They terrorized his daughter. Jacobson doesn't consider himself a hero. Yet somehow, the 140-pound father — clad in his pajamas and soaked with gas — fought off the two taller, heavier attackers. "When they went for my daughter," said Jacobson, "I went ballistic."

(Nov. 23, 2008) -- After their sport utility vehicle was hit by one train, smashing the front end and jamming the doors shut, a 38-year-old-man grabbed his daughters as second freight train bore down on them. Later Peter Salerno would credit divine inspiration for his reaction. All three escaped with scrapes and bruises.  "I just credit God Almighty himself with telling me to grab the girls," Peter Salerno said. "After the second train hit, I looked back at where Sydney was sitting and it was just gone."

(Nov. 22, 2008) -- Richard Wann and his daughter, Ginger, know what it takes to lose weight and get in shape. And for the most part, the father-daughter duo - one of five pairs of readers we're following in their quests to get fit in 2008 - have the exercise part of the "exercise more, eat less" formula down pat.

(Oct. 22, 2008) -- Robert Grandt was forced to admit he violated the city's ethics code when he placed copies of his daughter's book on a library display table at Brooklyn Technical High School and recommended it in a newsletter, The New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Wednesday.

(Oct. 21, 2008) -- "I have three kids.  The two oldest are boys.  The third, and youngest, is my daughter, Olivia," writes blogger Jeff Sass at DadOMatic.com. "From the moment of birth, boys and girls are different.  At least that"One day in the past year, I am not entirely sure when, I woke up and discovered that my little girl had miraculously turned into a young woman. How did that happen? When did she start speaking to me as a peer and engaging me in normal, LOGICAL conversation? When did she start making so much sense? When did Daddy’s little girl become a young woman?"

(Oct. 21, 2008) -- Samantha Shaw was daddy's girl when she was growing up. She would stay up at night just to help him eat his dinner. She played in his hair and enjoyed going to the beach and other places with him. But suddenly things changed. Shaw became a teenager. Then her dad stopped relating to her the way he used to. "When I turned 13 or so, Daddy and I no longer talked and it really hurt because this was the time when I needed him the most," Shaw relates.

(Oct. 21, 2008) -- With the U.S. ranking an astounding 71st in the world for women’s political participation – comprising only 16 percent of the Senate, 23 percent of state legislatures, and 10 percent of big city mayors – Take our Daughters to the Polls intends to show girls that there is a place for them in politics.

(Oct. 21, 2008) -- For Natasha Ahmed, 19, of Grand Blanc, this was the first time she saw poverty first hand. Sure, she had read about it in textbooks, but never actually seen it up close and personal like this.  Ahmed's father, Dr. Syed Ahmed, a cardiologist at Cardiology Institute of Michigan in Mundy Township, went along for the trip as the group's medical professional.

(Oct. 21, 2008) -- "My Little Girl," to be published Tuesday by Thomas Nelson, tells the story of a father — in a dark cowboy hat, of course — who spends a fun day with his little girl Katie doing ... nothing in particular. McGraw said he's found that his daughters like coming along while he does simple, everyday stuff, like running to the grocery store or stopping by the office.

(Oct. 21, 2008) -- After Rosandra Jackson’s father discovered the boy hiding in a closet, Jackson began to hit her father and, at one point, punched him in the mouth, as he was removing the boy from their home. Once the boyfriend was outside of the home, Jackson also threw a knife at her father, according to officials.