Life Without A Father

“Fathers should be seen nor heard. That’s the only proper basis for family life.” (Popenoe 1) That was the view on how things should be years ago. Fathering a child is not just the woman’s job anymore. Now what society expects of fathers has changed enormously. Fathers are now expected to be more involved in their children’s lives and more involved with housework. The role of the father is bigger than past generations of fathers would have thought possible. Many people once thought that fathers are unimportant to their child’s development. Many studies prove that one, fathers have a specific impact on their child that a women doesn’t have, and two, there are many negative impacts that an absent or not involved father can have on his children.
Fathers are now trying to be more apart of their children’s lives. With all the divorce’s there are that may be hard though. Sometimes the father can’t see his children because he may live too far away or he may h...