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MIAMI-DADE, FL, UNITED STATES, October 6, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Long before Ethan Jennings dreamed of becoming a microbiologist, the South Florida youngster had already helped inspire something few children ever will: a change in Florida law and a growing national conversation about fathers, children and parental rights.
Now, Ethan is pursuing another extraordinary distinction.
The sixth-grade student at Pines Collegiate Academy in Pembroke Pines, Florida, is currently ranked No. 1 in his group in the 2026 Stan Lee’s Super Kid competition, an online national contest celebrating children and their stories. Voting is underway, with the current Top 10 round scheduled to end Thursday, October 8.
The competition’s grand-prize winner will receive $25,000, be transformed into an illustrated character in a special-edition Stan Lee comic book and receive four VIP tickets to the 2027 Los Angeles Comic Con. The winner will also be able to carry the title “Stan Lee’s Super Kid.”
For Ethan, the superhero connection is especially fitting.
He is a fan of Spider-Man and Iron Man, and on his official Super Kid profile, Ethan names Spider-Man as his favorite superhero. His reason reflects a lesson made famous by the character: power comes with responsibility. Ethan says he wants to grow into a responsible person and, if he could choose his own superpowers, would select telekinesis and telepathy and use them to help save people around the world. But Ethan’s story of making a difference began well before this competition.
The Child Who Inspired the Good Dad Act
Ethan is the son of Dr. Bernard Wh Jennings, the South Florida civic leader and fatherhood advocate whose personal struggle to establish and protect his legal rights as Ethan’s father became the inspiration behind what became known as “Ethan’s Good Dad Act.”
Jennings has publicly described how, although he had cared for Ethan for much of his young life, his status as an unmarried father presented legal challenges when a dispute arose over his son. Jennings told ABC Action News in 2023 that he did not legally become Ethan’s father until January 9 of that year, despite having played a major role in raising him for years. His experience helped motivate his advocacy for changes to Florida law affecting unmarried fathers.
That advocacy became associated with Florida House Bill 775, legislation that passed the Florida Legislature unanimously and became effective July 1, 2023. The measure significantly changed Florida’s legal framework surrounding the rights of unmarried biological fathers.
What began as one father’s determination to remain a meaningful part of his son’s life has since developed into a broader fatherhood movement.
The Good Dad Act movement has continued to promote the principle that responsible fathers should have a meaningful opportunity to participate in their children’s lives. Similar debates over shared parenting, fathers’ rights and presumptions concerning parenting time have emerged in state legislatures around the country, helping turn what began as a Florida story into part of a national conversation about family law and fatherhood.
At the center of the story, however, remains Ethan.
From a Family Struggle to a Book
Dr. Jennings later chronicled the experience in his book, “Ethan’s Good Dad Act: A Father Turns Lemons Into Lemonade for All Good Dads to Take a Sip!”
Published in 2024, the 204-page book recounts a father’s battle for the legal right to parent his son while examining larger questions surrounding fathers, parental rights and the family court system. Its description says the story combines Jennings’ personal experience with research, case studies and discussion of the obstacles fathers can encounter while attempting to maintain relationships with their children.
The official Ethan’s Good Dad Act website describes the book as a dedication to advocating for parental rights and meaningful relationships between fathers and their children. The site also identifies it as an Amazon top-selling book.
Readers can learn more about the book and the story behind the movement at:
Ethan’s Good Dad Act official website – https://www.EthansGoodDadAct.com
The title itself is a reminder that behind the legislation, public meetings, advocacy and national attention is the relationship between a father and his son.
Ethan wasn’t merely the name chosen for a campaign. He was the reason for it.
A Sixth-Grader With a Future in Science
Today, Ethan is a sixth-grade student at Pines Collegiate Academy 6-12 in Pembroke Pines, part of Broward County Public Schools. The school emphasizes advanced academics and STEM opportunities, including aeronautics and robotics programs.
Ethan already has his sights on science. He says he would like to become a microbiologist when he grows up.
Like many children his age, however, science isn’t his only interest. He enjoys superhero movies, particularly Spider-Man and Iron Man — making his participation in a competition carrying Stan Lee’s name especially meaningful.
Stan Lee helped create or co-create some of the world’s most recognizable comic-book characters, including Spider-Man, Iron Man and the X-Men. The Super Kid competition is built around the idea that real children can demonstrate their own versions of courage, creativity, kindness and perseverance.
Ethan’s official competition profile describes him as smart, charismatic and emotionally intelligent — and sums up one particularly unusual accomplishment for a child his age in just four words: “He inspired a law.”
Ethan Is No. 1 — But He Needs Daily Votes
As of October 5, Ethan is currently in first place in his competition group, according to his official Stan Lee’s Super Kid profile.
The competition is far from over.
The contest progresses through several rounds, including the Top 10, Top 5, Group Finals, Wildcard Round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Finals. The final winner is scheduled to be determined through public voting, with the 2026 Grand Prize Winner expected to be announced on or before December 17.
Supporters can cast a free daily vote for Ethan through his official competition page. The competition also provides donation-based voting options. According to the official competition website, those donations support The Stan Lee Foundation and its mission to promote literacy and the narrative arts. The competition is operated by Colossal for DTCare, a nationally registered public charity that grants donations to the Stan Lee Foundation.
VOTE FOR ETHAN
Readers can vote for Ethan here: Vote for Ethan Jennings for Stan Lee’s Super Kid – https://thesuperkid.org/2026/ethan-e788
Supporters are encouraged to return and cast their available free vote each day, share Ethan’s voting page with family and friends, and help the South Florida sixth-grader maintain his first-place standing as he advances through the competition.
For Ethan, winning would mean $25,000, a VIP experience at Los Angeles Comic Con and something that would thrill almost any Spider-Man fan — seeing himself transformed into a superhero on the pages of a Stan Lee comic book.
But his story already carries an unusual distinction.
Before reaching middle school, Ethan Jennings had become the inspiration for a father’s book, a change in Florida law and a movement advocating for stronger relationships between fathers and their children.
Now, the boy who inspired Ethan’s Good Dad Act has an opportunity to add another chapter to his story.
This time, America gets to vote on it.
Vote daily for Ethan: Official Ethan Super Kid Voting Page: https://thesuperkid.org/2026/ethan-e788
Learn more about the story and book that bear his name:
Ethan’s Good Dad Act – https://www.EthansGoodDadAct.com
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