This article reports the results of a qualitative research aimed at understanding how facilitators of male domestic violence groups consider fathering in their interventions with these men. Group discussions and interviews were conducted with facilitators working in three organisations in Quebec and New Brunswick. According to those facilitators, it is difficult to integrate fathering in their interventions. The numerous difficulties experienced by the men (non-recognition of their violence, violence experienced during childhood, frustrations toward the systems, and mental health or addiction problems), lack of time, tools and education and questions regarding security, complicate exploration of fathering in these groups.