The most destructive trend of this generation is the crisis of fatherless children. Our society completely overlooks the multiple psychological outcomes of a child being raised without a father. It is ignored that these children are getting carelessly titled as having “daddy issues” without looking at the series of events that have caused them to have dysfunctional values. Many social problems strongly correlate with fatherlessness surpassing poverty, social class, or race, making it an issue that shouldn’t be simply described with a term that is tossed around so quickly like “daddy issues” has been.
The term “daddy issues” is misconceived by society as an excuse for women seeking attention. The definition of daddy issues given by urban dictionary is “ when a female has a bad relationship with her father or a father that walked out on her, causing her to seek male attention (be a slut)” We have all heard of a woman who is needy and who occasionally has self-destructive tendencies as having …show more content…
This “daddy issues” craze is a social issue that is not reversible among genders, making it not only offensive but also sexist. It is necessary that society recognizes that diagnosing a woman with “ daddy issues” is necessarily an over simplification. While “ daddy issues” has become common as a shorthand for a set of behaviors exhibited by some women, it is never acknowledged that not all women with this diagnosis exhibits these behaviors. Whether a woman’s daddy issues are the result of her relationship with her father figure or whether she was just handed a label by society because of the attached behaviors, it is insulting. Being named after an overly used term that is incorrectly defined to describe your views and morals, such as the definition given by Urban Dictionary, makes a person seem like there is something wrong with them leaving them
The term “daddy issues” is misconceived by society as an excuse for women seeking attention. The definition of daddy issues given by urban dictionary is “ when a female has a bad relationship with her father or a father that walked out on her, causing her to seek male attention (be a slut)” We have all heard of a woman who is needy and who occasionally has self-destructive tendencies as having …show more content…
This “daddy issues” craze is a social issue that is not reversible among genders, making it not only offensive but also sexist. It is necessary that society recognizes that diagnosing a woman with “ daddy issues” is necessarily an over simplification. While “ daddy issues” has become common as a shorthand for a set of behaviors exhibited by some women, it is never acknowledged that not all women with this diagnosis exhibits these behaviors. Whether a woman’s daddy issues are the result of her relationship with her father figure or whether she was just handed a label by society because of the attached behaviors, it is insulting. Being named after an overly used term that is incorrectly defined to describe your views and morals, such as the definition given by Urban Dictionary, makes a person seem like there is something wrong with them leaving them