What is the goal of raising the male child? This knowledge is required when discussing what said male child 'needs'. For what reason would a male child need a male role model as a parent?
Humorously, i am a male child as well... how would I have been impacted if i didn't have my father? [i[(well, i can tell you that... but it certainly isn't because of his being male!)[/i].
And what of single fathers? Do they somehow negatively affect female children, and ifso how?
A second parent (while not necessary for a properly developed individual) is quite helpful for children to have (being close to two different personalities instead of a single personality). Doesn't matter if they are both male or female or if one is make and the other female (or really... as you are actually talking about: men or women). From my mother I've learned patience and social etiquette, from my father I've learned to compete well and to have integrity. Doesn't matter if they were both men or women, the result of their personalities is the same (infact i'd rather they both be of the same gender, ehehe).
Really... much more important than any number and gender of parents is that the personalities of said parents be constructive to the positive development of a new person.
Humorously, i am a male child as well... how would I have been impacted if i didn't have my father? [i[(well, i can tell you that... but it certainly isn't because of his being male!)[/i].
And what of single fathers? Do they somehow negatively affect female children, and ifso how?
A second parent (while not necessary for a properly developed individual) is quite helpful for children to have (being close to two different personalities instead of a single personality). Doesn't matter if they are both male or female or if one is make and the other female (or really... as you are actually talking about: men or women). From my mother I've learned patience and social etiquette, from my father I've learned to compete well and to have integrity. Doesn't matter if they were both men or women, the result of their personalities is the same (infact i'd rather they both be of the same gender, ehehe).
Really... much more important than any number and gender of parents is that the personalities of said parents be constructive to the positive development of a new person.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
