Fathers have been defined as complementary to mothers. How do you define fatherhood?
Father’s Day is widely celebrated on the third Sunday in June. Since the holiday was first celebrated over a hundred years ago, the role of the father has changed. This year, we celebrate fatherhood on June 17.
Some topics we would be especially interested in reading include, but are not exclusive to:
Our fathers
Ourselves as fathers
Stay at home dads
Media images of dads
Single fathers
Absent dads
Fathers in prison
Fathers in the military
Fathers who work abroad
Highly successful fathers, in public and private
Paternity leave, the “daddy track”
Adoptive dads
Gay dads
Fathers of blended families
Romance after children
Funny dad stories
How your own father affected your ability to become a dad
Fathers without fathers
Fear of fathering
Make your submissions through Submishmash by Saturday, June 9 for consideration.
Justin Cascio writes Mafia Genealogy, where he finds clues to the crimes of capital-F Families in kinship networks. You can follow him on Twitter, Quora, and Facebook.
A Father should be the rock of the family the strong one to lean on and keep everything in balance . Supportive and Understanding even if he doesnt understand but loves his family enough to try . Encourage to bring out the best qualities in each child and be supportive of Mom even if not on best of terms . Never put down a childs mother in front of the child no matter what kind of woman she is . The child or children love both parents and its vital they work together to make the best possible life for… Read more »
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Mark Neil
14 years ago
How’s this for a definition of father: “a father’s most important role, and the one common “father factor” in all research that indicates any correlation between father involvement or presence and positive effect on child well-being is: a father who emotionally cares for, financially supports, respects, is involved with, takes some of the work load off of, and generally makes life easier, happier and less stressful for. . . his children’s mother.” In other words, to hell with the child, it’s the mom’s happiness and well being that matters in determining a good father. You can find this and many… Read more »
I would enjoy reading your submission on this subject, Mark. I hope you write it.
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Jean
14 years ago
Heyyyyyyyyy,,,,,wait a minutre. We haven’t had Mother’s Day yet. It is in the month of May, isn’t it. Wait you all’s turn. Or is this the plan, to take the awesome power of Mother’s Day ? Moderators please don’t get upset and think I am attacking men. I really don’t mean to and apologize if I attacked me
A Father should be the rock of the family the strong one to lean on and keep everything in balance . Supportive and Understanding even if he doesnt understand but loves his family enough to try . Encourage to bring out the best qualities in each child and be supportive of Mom even if not on best of terms . Never put down a childs mother in front of the child no matter what kind of woman she is . The child or children love both parents and its vital they work together to make the best possible life for… Read more »
How’s this for a definition of father: “a father’s most important role, and the one common “father factor” in all research that indicates any correlation between father involvement or presence and positive effect on child well-being is: a father who emotionally cares for, financially supports, respects, is involved with, takes some of the work load off of, and generally makes life easier, happier and less stressful for. . . his children’s mother.” In other words, to hell with the child, it’s the mom’s happiness and well being that matters in determining a good father. You can find this and many… Read more »
I would enjoy reading your submission on this subject, Mark. I hope you write it.
Heyyyyyyyyy,,,,,wait a minutre. We haven’t had Mother’s Day yet. It is in the month of May, isn’t it. Wait you all’s turn. Or is this the plan, to take the awesome power of Mother’s Day ? Moderators please don’t get upset and think I am attacking men. I really don’t mean to and apologize if I attacked me
Jean …. he’s asking for stories to be submitted is all. Needs time to put his stuff together. I’m looking forward to what he puts together.