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I was raised by a single mother and she did a great job raising me. I have turned out to be a respectable, professional person; however, as I got older, I began missing my father. There was a void there no one fill but him. He was 'around' but not in the household. We have a great relationship now and I remember him telling me something that struck me. One day I fessed up to him some very painful and embarrassing segments of my life when I was very young and even up to college. He said with a sigh, 'I am so sorry I wasn't around more. If I were, I really believe the things you've been through could've been avoided if I were there to guide you.'
I strongly believe that it is crucial and critical to have the patriarch in the home. Whenever I discuss this with some women, they totally dismiss the father's importance in the home. It's almost like you have to prove why they are necessary. I've never had anyone downplay the importance of a mother in the home, so why fathers?
After all, Even Presidents of the United States were raised by single mothers.
Seriously though,
SATURDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Family stability -- regardless of whether it's a one- or two-parent household -- may help a child succeed in school and life, a new study shows.
The findings, by an Ohio State University professor, challenge the conventional wisdom that two-parent households are always best for children. A single parent marrying or moving in with a partner may be as disruptive to a child as a divorce, the author suggests.
"Based on this study, we can't say for sure that marriage will be a good thing for the children of single mothers, particularly if that marriage is unhealthy and does not last," Claire Kamp Dush, an assistant professor of human development and family science at Ohio State, said in a university news release.
IMO its alwasy a advantage to have two good parents. I know I got different things from each myslef. its alos easier for two parnets to raisde and child and keep focised on the child more than a single pasrent who has oersonal assocations. It laos allow a betrer chance that one will be good if the other isn't whch is often the case with one parent especially a overloaded one.As I look back I remmeber my younger years mostly assocaited with my mother but being male later I remmeber so much that I learned form my father.
Boys will push a woman where a father will bop them in the head and keep them in line. You need the strength of a father to keep a son in line.
There is nothing worse than the threat of "Just wait till your Father gets home"
You obviously don't know my mother.
One day I went to visit her, and she realized I was getting tall. She said, and I quote,
"Remember, you might get bigger than me, but you're never to big for me to whip your A$$. If you think I can't whip you, I'll climb on the coffee table with an iron skillet and by God make you small enough for me to whip you!"
I think having a good mother AND a good father in the home is a definate plus! Every kid is different as they get older and choose their own paths~~I know a lot of people who didn't have fathers growing up(mostly guys) who were bad, fought a lot, got in trouble etc. Most gang members are people who have not had a positive male role model in their life, but like I said I think every kid is different, some are stronger than others~Then there are kids who grow up all mest up that have had a mother and father in the home, thats why I say a GOOD mother and FATHER that love AND respect each other is a plus
My son is doing just fine without the presence of his sperm donor in his life (my son's words, not mine). After his father and I divorced, getting him to even spend time with his own son was like pulling teeth. Now my son is 12 and wants nothing to do with his father and that is 100% his father's fault.
It isn't down playing the role of the father. Either the dad is available and involved or isn't because they A. Don't want to be or B. Are Dead or C. In prison or D. Are harmful to the children and not allowed.
That is the way it is. There is no should be game here.
When you have a single father with children the mother is either available and involved or A. Don't want to be or B. Are Dead or C. In prison or D. Are harmful to the children and not allowed.
That is the way it is. There is no should be game here.
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