Posted on 06/17/2012 4:34:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
I have two twentysomething daughters who’re currently taking over the planet. When these female charges popped out of their mommy’s womb, this thing called “responsibility for their upbringing” hit me like a Jackie Chan punch.
I didn’t slough off my role in their lives onto my wife, my church, public school, day care, relatives, TV, or “the village.” I didn’t expect any of the aforementioned to fill my boots chiefly because … they can’t.
Living in Miami, I knew I would have to pony up and become a major player in my little ones’ lives if I wanted them to escape being part of the local teen chum slick. In other words, I was going to have to be a dad in the traditional sense of the word.
Here’s a little FYI for slack-jawed sperm donor baby daddies out there: A lack of mental, physical, and spiritual input from you, dad, will exponentially boost the odds that your youngster will grow up to be more lost than an AK-47 under Holder’s oversight.But you probably don’t give a crap because you’re the type who wears sunglasses indoors. It’s always sunny in Doucheville, eh?
Now, the man-hating feminists would love for us all to believe that a dad’s role in his daughter’s life really isn’t that important and that a father can be easily replaced by extra mothers, or public school, or some government program; however, the facts speak to the contrary.
For instance, when a little girl has a loving dad in her life who is a provider, protector, hunter, and hero, research shows that said lucky lady is going to turn into one amazing woman. Yep, when a great pappy is in the house, these are the kinds of reports you hear:
· Toddlers securely attached to fathers are better at solving problems.
· Six-month-olds scored higher on tests of mental development when their dads were involved in their lives.
· With dads in the home, kids managed school stress better.
· Girls whose dads provide warmth and control achieve higher academic success.
· Girls who are close to their fathers exhibit less anxiety and withdrawn behaviors.
The good news doesn’t stop there. As little darlings mature and plow into puberty and beyond with dads who’re worth their salt at their sides, these young women show these not-too-shabby traits:
· The likelihood that daughters engage in premarital sex, drug use, and alcohol plummets when their dads are involved in their lives.
· Girls with doting fathers are more assertive.
· Daughters who feel that their dads care about them and feel connected with their dads have significantly fewer suicide attempts and fewer instances of body dissatisfaction, depression, low self-esteem, substance abuse, and unhealthy weight.
· Girls involved with dad are twice as likely to stay in school.
· A girl’s self esteem is best predicted by her dad’s loving affection.
· Girls with fathers involved in their lives have higher quantitative and verbal skills and higher intellectual functioning.
· Girls whose parents divorce or separate before they turn 21 tend to have shorter life spans by four years.
· Girls with decent dads are less likely to flaunt themselves to seek male attention.
· Fathers help daughters to be more competent, more achievement oriented, and more successful.
· Girls with involved fathers wait longer to initiate sex and have lower rates of teen pregnancy. Teen girls who live with both parents are three times less likely to lose their virginity before their sixteenth birthday.
· 76 percent of teen girls said their fathers influenced their decisions on whether they should become sexually active.
· 97 percent of girls who said they could talk to their parents had lower teen pregnancy rates.
· A daughter from a middle-class family has a fivefold lower risk of out-of-wedlock pregnancy if her father lives at home.
· Girls who live with their mothers only have significantly less ability to control their impulses, delay gratification, and have a weaker sense of right and wrong.
· Kids do better academically when their fathers establish rules and exhibit affection.
(The above bullet points were taken from Meg Meeker’s book, Your Kids at Risk: How Teen Sex Threatens Our Sons and Daughters .)
Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers out there who are living their lives in the grand masculine sense of the word. No matter what the man-hating, nerve-grating feminists yammer, you are irreplaceable in the grand family scheme of things. Therefore, stay your traditional course and watch life pay you back in spades. Salute!
Good article! I totally agree. Thanks!
well put.
Thanks
Great Fathers Day article!
Proud to be an involved Dad.
Hey, sperm-donating male rounders: Good fathers are irreplaceable, and your children don’t have one.
Oh, he said that, too. Good on ya, Doug.
I wonder if any of those studies, the ones that show how little the work man does around the house is worth compared to the work a woman does, factor any of this.
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That makes sense to me.
My dad died when I was ten. To this day 49 years later I still miss him. I remember telling him I wanted to be a hairdresser. He was instantly furious. He said you will not be a hairdresser, you are going to college. My dad the original feminist!
You story is similar to mine. My Dad died 59 years ago when I had just turned 11. My Mom told me that she and my Dad had agreed that their children would all get good educations. She succeeded in fulfilling their wish.
One of my sisters did not really like schoolwork, except for secretarial skills, like typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, etc. All she wanted to do was get a job after HS. My Dad talked her into at least going through a one-year course at the local business school, and she got her certificate. Many years later she remembered his advice when she became eligible for an advancement which required some post-HS education. She showed her certificate of graduation from a busuness school, and got the job. I’m sure Dad was smiling in heaven about it.
You story is similar to mine. My Dad died 59 years ago when I had just turned 11. My Mom told me that she and my Dad had agreed that their children would all get good educations. She succeeded in fulfilling their wish.
One of my sisters did not really like schoolwork, except for secretarial skills, like typing, bookkeeping, shorthand, etc. All she wanted to do was get a job after HS. My Dad talked her into at least going through a one-year course at the local business school, and she got her certificate. Many years later she remembered his advice when she became eligible for an advancement which required some post-HS education. She showed her certificate of graduation from a busuness school, and got the job. I’m sure Dad was smiling in heaven about it.
It’s called common sense. Something feminists and other lefties lack and something Giles has in abundance.
“I think that most militant feminists had lousy fathers.”
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Why did I think of self-absorbed, neurotic little cowards like Woody Allen....or for matter, most of Hollywood.....
Happy Fathers’ Day, and a huge “Thank You!” to all the conservative fathers in the US.
You do all of us a huge favor by being the men you are. In the vast majority of cases it’s not your children filling our nation’s prisons or victimizing it’s citizens, it’s not your kids who are selling drugs to other people’s kids on the street corner, it’s not your kids standing in lines in the welfare offices, burning American flags, crapping down the sides of police cars, making babies with a dozen different “women,” or voting anti-American Marxists into the office of President.
In short, what of our Founding Fathers’ vision of America that remains on this continent remains because of you.
Most militant feminists had no fathers at all, even if there was a “man” in the house.
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