Children Always Need Love, Compassion, Support And Empathy...

Chase Sullivan DR. Earnest FSL November 9, 2016 Fatherless Children always need love, compassion, support and empathy from their parents when growing up. They are better off without a father in certain circumstances such as abuse, but both boys and girls will suffer a negative effect as they develop into adults without a father in any situation. No one can agree that growing up fatherless is far from the worst thing other than Michele Weldon from the New York Times, and her article â€Å"When Children Are Better off Fatherless† as she states: In the cases where the father is far from heroic – even abusive – his absence is also the absence of the chaos, anger, pain and disruption he would bring to his family. Americans encourage women to leave abusive partners, but mothers who do this end up in a class we shame and pity. The government itself sends the message that children are better off with a father. 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