Dad To The Dadless
Dad To Those Who Have No Dad "… Father to the fatherless…" One of the most difficult things to observe over the years has been to observe the impact of someone who -- for all intents and purposes--is fatherless: Some are fatherless because their Daddy simply died. Some are fatherless, while dad is living, because he simply is not available. It maybe because he has too much pain of his own to have time to help this child live a full life. It may be that he is addicted to drugs or alcohol, and these chemicals have become his closest friends. It may be that he's geographically separated from her children, and he simply did not take the time to parent them. It could be that he had an affair or he simply was a victim of his own upbringing, and so he abandoned his children. Whatever the case may be, it is clear that huge numbers of children, in the last generation grew up, without their biological Dad in the hom...