Imagine growing up without a father? Boys that grow up without a father are not being taught how to treat women or how to be a “man” and provide for a family. For a girl to grow up without a dad not knowing or understanding how she should be treated by men.Without the guidance of a father neither a daughter nor son would be able to tell the differences from right and wrong. Children that grow up without a father that spends time with friends or family in hopes to find someone could be a possible father figure. These children grow up and seeing their mother struggling finically to take care of the familly wanted to help mom out. In the story, What It Means To Be Daddy by Jennifer Hamer it tells the story of how slavery itself separated fathers
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Within, the article What Happens To Boys When Their Fathers Are Missing it states “Mandara says boys raised in homes without fathers tend to be more emotionally fragile”(parenthetical citation). An example of this would be when a teachers gives boy and girls an action figure to play with. The girls would be more creative by having a fantasy life around the action figure as opposed to a boy who will strip the action figure of its clothes to see its genitals and hit others kids with the action figure. This reflects a boys life when there is no father figure when there is no role model in the child's life then the child will not know the differences between right from wrong. Also in the story What It Means to Be Daddy, the text explains how a father is supposed to perform his duties like a father should. An example from the text states, “ A good father is one who is married. He stays around. He is a father on the premises. His children need and he strives to give them what they need, everyday. He knows that nothing can substitute for him. Either he is a father or his children are fatherless. He would consider himself “not that important ” to his children” (Hamer,20). Both of these qoutes relate to each other because they both show why father figures are needed in a boy’s
Within, the article What Happens To Boys When Their Fathers Are Missing it states “Mandara says boys raised in homes without fathers tend to be more emotionally fragile”(parenthetical citation). An example of this would be when a teachers gives boy and girls an action figure to play with. The girls would be more creative by having a fantasy life around the action figure as opposed to a boy who will strip the action figure of its clothes to see its genitals and hit others kids with the action figure. This reflects a boys life when there is no father figure when there is no role model in the child's life then the child will not know the differences between right from wrong. Also in the story What It Means to Be Daddy, the text explains how a father is supposed to perform his duties like a father should. An example from the text states, “ A good father is one who is married. He stays around. He is a father on the premises. His children need and he strives to give them what they need, everyday. He knows that nothing can substitute for him. Either he is a father or his children are fatherless. He would consider himself “not that important ” to his children” (Hamer,20). Both of these qoutes relate to each other because they both show why father figures are needed in a boy’s