Clear sources. Clear ownership. Clear limits.

Our standard

Help a reader act without claiming more than the evidence supports.

Bestead publishes self-guided education, not individualized clinical advice. Every guide should answer one real question, provide a practical next step, distinguish evidence from inference, and explain when the page is not enough.

Scope and independence

Editorial pages are written for fathers and father figures, while recognizing different family structures and experiences. Commercial relevance does not permit a guide to exaggerate a problem, hide a product limit, or turn a source into an endorsement. We do not accept payment to alter a factual conclusion or recommendation without disclosure.

Sources and claims

For health-adjacent statements, we prefer government and public-health sources, professional bodies, peer-reviewed systematic reviews, primary studies, and established nonprofit or university resources. A citation must support the nearby claim. We distinguish correlation from causation, avoid unsupported prevalence figures, and do not treat one study as universal proof.

Authorship and review

A page names its responsible author and reviewer. At present, guides may be attributed to the Bestead Editorial Team rather than to an invented individual. A named profile is published only when the person, role, relevant experience, credentials, disclosures, and reviewed work can be verified. An editorial review is not described as a clinical review unless a qualified clinician actually performed and accepted that role.

AI-assisted work

Automated tools may assist with drafting, structure, language checks, source discovery, or translation. They are not treated as authors or expert reviewers. Material claims, citations, safety language, app facts, and final publication decisions require accountable editorial checking. We do not claim that a translation received professional or clinical review unless that review occurred.

Safety and tone

We avoid diagnosis, treatment instructions, guarantees, shame, fear-based marketing, and language that could minimize abuse or danger. Guides include a safety boundary where the topic can intersect with self-harm, harm to others, violence, coercion, severe distress, or child safety. Emergency guidance points to appropriate external services; Bestead is not a crisis service.

Corrections

Readers can report a factual, citation, safety, translation, accessibility, or product-description issue through support. We assess the underlying source or current product behavior, make the correction where warranted, and update the modified or reviewed date only when a substantive change or real review occurred.

Updates and archives

Time-sensitive claims—such as feature availability, subscription terms, store pricing, crisis resources, and policies—need more frequent checking than stable definitions. A review date is not refreshed merely to look current. If a page can no longer be supported safely, it should be corrected, clearly limited, redirected, or removed from publication.

Conflicts and commercial links

Bestead's guides can link to its own product because the site publishes the product. That relationship should be obvious. We do not present app-store links as independent editorial endorsements, and we do not publish ratings, testimonials, clinical outcomes, certifications, or expert affiliations that have not been verified.