Having a healthy, loving relationship with secure, stable attachments with family will help create a feeling of security and help with self-confidence in a child (East 610). “Men expresses regret and sadness when met with the absence of an older male mentor” (East 611). Any older male can serve as an emotional substitute for a father to a child, and they do not need to begin as the child’s father. That represents the reason why Jim acts like a normal boy because he had not one, not two, but three men, who love Jim dearly, serving as the father figure he needs. Though Jim does wish he could have met his dad and it does hurt him that he will never have the chance to meet him, he does not want a new one because he already has three (Earley
Having a healthy, loving relationship with secure, stable attachments with family will help create a feeling of security and help with self-confidence in a child (East 610). “Men expresses regret and sadness when met with the absence of an older male mentor” (East 611). Any older male can serve as an emotional substitute for a father to a child, and they do not need to begin as the child’s father. That represents the reason why Jim acts like a normal boy because he had not one, not two, but three men, who love Jim dearly, serving as the father figure he needs. Though Jim does wish he could have met his dad and it does hurt him that he will never have the chance to meet him, he does not want a new one because he already has three (Earley