Girls that are raised by single dads. (stepmother, ideas, legal)
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After reading the topic " Do you do everything for your boys?" I got to thinking, what do you think are the possible negatives for single fathers raising girls? Now, just like single mothers can still raise boys into good men, undoubtedly single fathers are capable of raising girls into good women, however, it's not as prevalent, but indeed growing. So, for the sake of argument if it were 50/50 and the ration of single men raising daughters were the same as single mothers raising sons, what do you think could be possible negatives?
Do you personally see it as really any different in how a single father could raise a girl to be a woman as vice versa assuming the father raising the daughter is kind, compassionate much like a single mother raising a son?
I have a close friend who is raising his daughter (her mom died of breast cancer). He's doing a great job and his daughter is just a lovely girl. I think if kids are raised by loving involved caregivers that's the most important thing
My daughter went to school from 2nd grade on with two girls whose mother died very young from breast cancer. Their father worked full time and raised these girls with a great deal of help from his former sister in law as well as members of his own family. He had more help than most parents but that does not diminish his role in bringing up two very compassionate and intelligent women. Both are married now with families of their own. He never went on a date after his wife's death until after the youngest girl was married. He went on cruises etc but he told me he wasn't so much looking for a new partner as he was trying to fill his incredibly lonely life. He made those girls his entire life just like so many moms do but now he is caregiver for 2 grandsons and is in 7th heaven. You have never seen such a happy and content man. He beams.
what do you think are the possible negatives for single fathers raising girls?
I can not think of a single one - except for the obvious GENERAL point that clearly single parents have a larger strain on their financial and time resources than couples or other relationship constellations.
Did you have any negatives in mind in particular? Because as I said I am failing entirely to even begin to think of any.
IMO the daughter usually grows up resenting her father. Because
A) "He couldn't possibly understand girl problems"
B) "He always associates/brings home stupid girls"
I have a close friend who is raising his daughter (her mom died of breast cancer). He's doing a great job and his daughter is just a lovely girl. I think if kids are raised by loving involved caregivers that's the most important thing
+1. It matters not who raises children. Do you know what adoption is, OP? It's a very successful process which works amazingly well for many families. Then there are gay couples raising kids, kids raised by extended family members, even the unusual situation where kids are raised by a friend in a nonlegal custodial arrangement. I was raised by my mom in a lesbian relationship along with my half sister (her daughter) in a split custodial arrangement part time, and the rest of the time I lived with my father, who remarried my stepmother and had three daughters with the new wife. It was a schizophrenic living situation, but I'd like to think I'm a kind and compassionate person. I'd even venture so far as to say I am more openminded to certain ideas of family than others due to my background.
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