Apa My Father

Once my mom and my step dad got a divorce her, my brother, and I moved in to our old house until we could go back to Tennessee where we originally came from. Everything went downhill from there. The house had no water or electricity and she would leave me

Six years ago, a summer afternoon, my dad hugged me and I said “I will be gone for three days, I have a job in Austin, but I promise that I will be back before your birthday. I promise.” Days, weeks, months almost two years passed by and I did not receive any phone call or text message from him. Throughout that time my dad was gone, my mom told me that she was getting the papers ready to divorce my dad. I was noticing that the last three-four years that I was living with both of my parents, their relationship was getting worse. It was not a healthy situation for anyone in the house. What I mean about not being healthy is that my mother and father were damaging one another, emotionally and verbally, which my brothers and I would watch everything. Every day was the same routine, we forgot how it was to have a peaceful home. Around that moment, I honestly never thought divorce was going to be their solution.

Every Father plays a symbolic role in another child’s life, he can always be there for you and provide you with what you need and sometimes what you want. A father can be there for you to teach you the rights and the wrongs in life, even though sometimes you don’t want to believe he’s right. A father can teach you how to become a man and teach you to become an athlete if you choose to be one, he will teach you self-discipline and do everything in his power to make sure you will be successful in what you want to do. Some people, unfortunately do not have a father who can do all of these things for whatever the reason may be. Luckily I was blessed with a father who could do all these things and end up becoming my biggest influence in life and the game of baseball.

It was the summer of sixth grade year and I was living in Calumet City, IL. Me, my mom, and my sister were on our way to Burger King, but before we got there my mom had to stop at the bank and get some money. When she turned to the bank’s parking lot, some papers fell and so I picked them up. Since I’m nosey I checked out what the papers were for and once I read the title “Divorce Documents”, I was completely shocked but didn’t show any emotion. Once my mom came back out I didn’t say anything. I thought to myself, “She’ll tell me when she thinks is the right time.” but little did I know that on that day my mom was already planning to tell us about it.

A father is a very important figure in a child’s life. They help raise and guide their child so they can have a successful life in the future. Father’s always want what’s best for their kids and most of the time they will sacrifice what they have for their children. Without fathers, children today would be out of control and running amok. This is evident in the present and is becoming more prevalent around the world. Fathers are needed in child’s life so they can help educate their children on a respectful lifestyle. There are long term consequences when a father a is not there for their child.

After my tenth birthday we moved from New York to California. Shortly after moving here my dad experienced a difficult challenge and began to drink and have affairs, resulting in my parents divorcing. Society at the time considered divorce taboo, as did the catholic church. I felt ostracized as friends, church members and family ended their relationships with my mother, and ultimately us.

“I understand their sense of abandonment, and I empathize with the anger and resentment they feel when their fathers point to the material wealth and educational opportunities they gave their children and think these things somehow entitle them to be called ‘good fathers.’” (Brott, 2009, page 1). This means that most fathers believe that providing wealth and schooling opportunities enough and he doesn’t need to do anything else for his child. Even though this isn’t physical abuse, they are still mentally messing with them by not interacting with their child. A father should do more than just provide wealth and educational opportunities. He should be making memories with his child and not make their entire childhood a living

In today’s ever changing world of family problems and instability, fathers are becoming a very scarce commodity. There is a major crisis brewing in the United States and the family unit is coming under siege. (According to the U.S. Census Bureau, over 24 four million children live without a father, that’s one out of every three children living in a home with one of the supporting pillars in a family.) With the father absence in these child lives, they become more prone to various problems in life later on. Everything from dropping out of school to going to prison, the chances of this happening increase dramatically.

I was starting 6th grade, my mom and my dad, who had divorced when I was almost three, started a custody battle over me. I loved both my mom and my dad, and had been living both with my mom and with my dad, each parent getting me every other weekend and after school half of each week. At the time, both my mom and my dad lived in Virginia, but when my mom moved to South Carolina, my dad moved to Wisconsin. From that point, my dad said he wanted custody of me. Mom thought I would be happier living mainly with her. What followed was an intense custody battle, which the judge who decided said was the worst he had ever seen. Whenever I was with my dad, he talked bad about my mom, and, while my mom refrained from talking bad about my dad, I could tell she was very stressed. Both of my parents were too busy with the custody battle to really spend a lot of time with

has affected your life just as much as theirs? I was in the 8th grade when my mother remarried,

When I was 15 years old my parents told me they had decided to get a divorce. Both of my sisters were very upset at the news. I, on the other

resulting in my mother leaving and not communicating to our family for months.My father had met a

A relationship between a father and his child is one of the most sacred bonds to have growing up. Some people do not have to fortunate of having such a thing. Other people have fathers that do terrible things (such as murder, rape, or stealing) to either others or themselves.

One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in my life was when my parents divorced. I had always been around kids with divorced parents, but I never thought I would be one of them. I never thought I would be the one having to answer questions like “Are you at your mom’s or dad’s house this week?”, or having to figure out who I would spend holidays with. It was a huge change, and it was by far the hardest time I’ve had in my life.

In conclusion, I am daddy's little girl and proud of that. I could not of asked for a better father. My dad has always been there for me and I wil always be there for him. I respect my father because he deserves to be. He stayed and was a father and never took the easy way out like in the world today most fathers do. I believe my father is the best at everything he does. He has been through so much in his life and still is a happy wonderful man; I would have been sad and depressed if I had to go through hald as much as my father. Dad is strong and looks ahead not behind, he always say the past is the past "always