Growing up in my early years of childhood I was fatherless. I went through multiple foster homes until being adopted. Therefore I was attracted to the Fatherless America reading. I remember the struggles of my mother trying to provide for my siblings and me. It was tough for her to provide for three children while trying to work enough to manage the bills. It became too much for her to uphold which led us in the custody of Child Protective Services. I was just a toddler who could barely even write my name but yet I still remember so vividly how tough it was being taken away from her. I understand that there are many different reasons why children are fatherless so it is hard to narrow it down to one reason. The fact of the matter is that they
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Weldon explains that children are not doomed just because they are fatherless. I selected this article because I believe it gives a different view of the fatherlessness problem in our country. Weldon believes that we cannot just have pity on the single mothers but should be thankful that the abusive father or whatever the problem was with the father is no longer a part of that child’s life corrupting it. She states that single mothers are in a category in which we all take pity on. When in fact that fatherless family could be bettering from that. Such as abusive fathers. That means there is one less chaos factor in that home. (Weldon) She does prove a point that there has been a lot of people to become successful with only a single mother taking care of them. She names off a list of very reputable names that have been successful with just a single mother such as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford. (Weldon) However in her first sentence she states that 24 million fatherless children are in America. (Weldon) Not all of these children however are going to become Presidents. That leaves me to wonder what happens with the rest of these children who aren’t specially gifted like these famous presidents with single mothers. I agree with Weldon in the sense that maybe it is the best thing for the father to be out of the child’s life instead of being a negative influence on it. However I also disagree with her that these children are not all doomed. They may not all ne doomed but they are going to grow up with different problems rather than a child who has both parents. I know it was toughing growing up without my parents and I still think about it all the time. It’s tougher for me to go to school, afford everyday things because I don’t have that family help guiding me through college. So in a sense these kids have to be self-motivators and push themselves to do
Weldon explains that children are not doomed just because they are fatherless. I selected this article because I believe it gives a different view of the fatherlessness problem in our country. Weldon believes that we cannot just have pity on the single mothers but should be thankful that the abusive father or whatever the problem was with the father is no longer a part of that child’s life corrupting it. She states that single mothers are in a category in which we all take pity on. When in fact that fatherless family could be bettering from that. Such as abusive fathers. That means there is one less chaos factor in that home. (Weldon) She does prove a point that there has been a lot of people to become successful with only a single mother taking care of them. She names off a list of very reputable names that have been successful with just a single mother such as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Gerald Ford. (Weldon) However in her first sentence she states that 24 million fatherless children are in America. (Weldon) Not all of these children however are going to become Presidents. That leaves me to wonder what happens with the rest of these children who aren’t specially gifted like these famous presidents with single mothers. I agree with Weldon in the sense that maybe it is the best thing for the father to be out of the child’s life instead of being a negative influence on it. However I also disagree with her that these children are not all doomed. They may not all ne doomed but they are going to grow up with different problems rather than a child who has both parents. I know it was toughing growing up without my parents and I still think about it all the time. It’s tougher for me to go to school, afford everyday things because I don’t have that family help guiding me through college. So in a sense these kids have to be self-motivators and push themselves to do