When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Single parent situations drive poverty and often lead to unsupervised kids. Many boys growing up without fathers often feel angry and abandoned. Thus, they seek comfort in all the wrong places.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family, every intelligent child thinks: 'How did I come to be born to these parents?' - it is about finding your place in the world.
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children.
Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.
Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
There is no child left within me, none whatsoever.
If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.