Mike Farrell is the owner/operator of Fatherville.com and is also the Senior contributing editor. Mike and his wife Dawn have three wonderful children and reside in the beautiful State of Idaho.

Mike graduated from Boise State University in 1991 with a B.A. in English, Secondary Education. Mike also works full time as a Webmaster and a Project Manager in the Information Services department for natural gas utility located in Boise, Idaho. He has been employed with the utility for 23 years.

Mike has spoken at a number of men's conferences on the topic of purity and is passionate about fatherhood and about the responsibility of passing on the legacy of his faith to his children.

Argentina [Archie] Roscoe Wortham was born in Columbus, Ohio, on the 8th of October 1950, the third son of Wilbert and Virgie Worthams of Stanton, Tennessee. His maternal grandmother was a Cherokee Indian, and his paternal great-grandparents were slaves. He attended Frazier High School in Covington, Tennessee, where he graduated as the valedictorian in 1968. His father's oldest sister, Jennie Sue Cunningham and her husband, Louis, raised Argentina.

He attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree (1973) and Master of Arts in Speech & Theatre (1976) and became the first African-American male Speech & Theater graduate from UT. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Army on the 23rd of August 1976, he served for 20 years, retiring as a Major in August of 1996, that same month he began work on his doctorate.

He has been married to Suzan Brenda D'Souza since the 24th of June 1983, and they have two sons, Jeremy Josef [1990] and Myles Frederick [1994]. His awards and honors included, Department of Defense Meritorious Service Medal, three Army Meritorious Service Medals, three Army Commendation Medals, two Army Achievement Medals, Outstanding Volunteer Medal, and the United States Army's parachutist's badge. An Outstanding Young Man In America 1984, 85, and 86, he is also the recipient of two George Washington Honor Medals from the Freedoms Foundation (1968 and 1986). He currently teaches speech at Northeast Lakeview College, and writes a dad's column for which he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer's Prize. Archie also received the Presidential Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Awared in 2006.

Archie has sung in the choir, taught Sunday school, and been active with youth groups since high school. He maintains that the most significant thing that he has ever been called upon to do is be the father of his children, and often begins training sessions for fathers with the quote "Ever wondered why God chose you to be the father of your child."

With this being his focus, Archie has given seminars throughout the country, help devise curriculum, and written about fatherhood for the past 11 years. His first published column appeared three weeks before his dad died. Currently he writes a weekly dad's column in San Antonio called Men 2 Fathers. In May 2005, he received his doctorate from the University of Texas, at Austin, where he focused on fatherhood, and his dissertation entitled "Paternal Involvement in the Education of Children: How Fathers Communicated with their Sons about the Value of Education" was selected at the outstanding dissertation from his department. He is honored and humbled to be the father of his children and husband to his wife, and feels the most effective way to make change in our country today is a commitment to marriage and to increase active father involvement at all levels [homes, community, and especially schools].

Mark is currently working as an Engineer with a leading semiconductor company. He received his BS in Engineering from Colorado State University. Mark's interests include serving in Adult Education ministries at his local church, coaching youth sports and cycling.

Mark and his wife Pam have two children and live in Boise, ID.