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| - Your dad, like your mom, is an important figure in your life. He is the dad that pays the bills. He is the dad that collects you from the police when you get arrested for a stupid prank. And he is the dad that sells you the address of an abortion clinic or adoption agency whilst you are about to sit your college exams. Without your dad, you would not be here. Now there is a thought to masticate on whilst eating your shreddies. Without your dad and the world is without you. Forget what you could have done, you will not be born. You are a product of your dad's gonads, incubated and nurtured in his sack prior before the countdown to the emission that produces YOU. Whether that moment came on a park bench, the back seat of a Toyota 4x4 truck or in your parents bedroom with the object of your desire, your dad was there when it mattered. At your conception. You probably should share a close bond with your dad before he dies. Think of Hamlet on the battlements of Elsinore Castle with the shade of his father. Did his dad help him after death? No, the ghost encouraged his son to go a murderous spree that would end Hamlet's own death - and the end of the family line. So much for postmortem Danish parenting skills. But consider this fact. Your dad walked 15 MILES in the cold, frigid air every day to get an education so that he might one day sex your mother. That is an achievement on anyone's iPad. You see your dad, a least a living and breathing one, is vitally important to how you will develop in later life. So when your dad has long gone and no one visits that hillside where you dumped his ashes down a rabbit hole, you will have what he had once. Active father figures have a key role to play in reducing behaviour problems in boys and psychological problems in young women. For example, children who experience significant father involvement tend to exhibit higher scores on assessments of cognitive development, enhanced social skills and fewer behavior problems. They are also allowed to install wi-fi routers to evade parental bans on viewing adult content on-line. To support the importance of a father figure, children who are raised without fathers perceive themselves to be less cognitively and physically competent than their peers from father-present families. Mothers raising children without fathers reported more severe disputes with their child. Sons raised without fathers showed more feminine but no less masculine characteristics of gender role behavior. Sons raised by apes or wolves often go on different psychological paths in relation to their father figure but to be honest, that is perhaps the least of their problems.
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