Only reprobates father children and then abandon them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.
All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real way, that it's very different to have the responsibility of a child.
You have to let individuals make their own choices and respect that, even if it's your own child. And that's what was taken away from me. My father passed away thinking I still had to go back to his way of believing.
Child-rearing can be a tedious and thankless undertaking.
I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.
The Bible tells us that we're supposed to leave an inheritance for children.
There's no substitute for the experience of childbearing or child rearing.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.