In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Each father wants their sons to be just like them, really.
It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.
I think a father is important for everyone. If you don't have, then maybe not so much. In the world today, it's possible that you grow up with only one parent in the family.
Some men don't have the opportunity to be the type of father they need to be, and I hope my example teaches them to step up.
Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.