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Even those with two parents are envious, but that does not mean that we the children do not still feel the absence of our father. We still wonder what it would be like to have our father around. Among daughters who never knew their fathers at all, the fantasy is largely the product of the imagination, informed by Hollywood movies and novels (Rosenthal). The youngest child in our family who was still young when our father died had to rely on the things we told her and the films she watched to form fantasies about our father in order to have things to say when her friends were also discussing about their fathers. Absent fathers leave it up to their daughters to figure out what a good man might be like (Rosenthal). My mother is the best mother I know because she is doing all her best to be both a father and a mother to her children. But no one fact still remains, no matter how much she tries, we the children still feel the void of no having a
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When a female child is brought up by a single mother, she learns to be independent. Growing up with my mother has thought me not to rely on anyone but God for my survival. No man can intimidate me because I have learnt not to set limits for my success. I have also learnt that I can be whoever I want to be as long as I am focused and determined. Gradually, single-parenting will be a norm in our society. Single parenthood may be trendy for the rich and famous but it is setting a bad example (Sun). Most ladies feel they cannot deal with the excesses of a man therefore, the best thing is to get a sperm donor, get pregnant, and live happily ever after alone with their child or children. Movies portray single-parenting as the happiest form of a family because you get to have freedom without having to be answerable to …show more content…
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When a female child is brought up by a single mother, she learns to be independent. Growing up with my mother has thought me not to rely on anyone but God for my survival. No man can intimidate me because I have learnt not to set limits for my success. I have also learnt that I can be whoever I want to be as long as I am focused and determined. Gradually, single-parenting will be a norm in our society. Single parenthood may be trendy for the rich and famous but it is setting a bad example (Sun). Most ladies feel they cannot deal with the excesses of a man therefore, the best thing is to get a sperm donor, get pregnant, and live happily ever after alone with their child or children. Movies portray single-parenting as the happiest form of a family because you get to have freedom without having to be answerable to …show more content…
"The single parent faces a multitude of challenges." The Washington Post 22 Sept. 2011: T17. Print.
Rincover, Dr. Arnold. "Single-parenting is not a hopeless task." HCC Library Login. Version 2nd Edition. The Toronto Star, 25 Aug. 1990. Web. 22 Apr. 2014
Rosenthal, Sarah Simms. "The Absent Father." The Unavailble Father. Unted States of America: Jossey- Bass, 2010. 105. Print.
"Single Parent." Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.
Sun, Herald. "Baby Makes Two." HCC Library Login. N.p., 10 Jan. 2001. Web. 22 Apr. 2014.
Yarber, Annice D., and Paul M. Sharp. "Children Raised in Fatherless Families from Infancy: A Follow Up of Children of Lesbian and Single HeterosexualMothers at Early Adolescence." Focus on Single- Parent Families. Fiona Macallum and Susan Golombok ed. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, 2010. 43.