Are you a good dad if???
By my5now
@my5now (4)
April 20, 2008 7:09am CST
Ok here is the situation I got pregnant at 16 I own up to the responsibilitys of having a child right from the start. On the other hand my sons father was very hurtful to me as with many different things like threats and trashing my car or cheating. Now for the first few years of my sons life his father has been in and out of his life then total cut of contact now 12 years later hoping hes has some kind of sense of remorse for leaving his son hanging in the past with ok, I'll come see you or I'll call and not doing so I have done everything to try to get them together, his father has another child that he has put through this same ordeals of I'll be there and doesnot call for months, So recently my sons father has the nerve to tell me he has no bond with my son and I just want his gravy train!! He currently has three more children added to his pot and has them living with him and his new girlfriend and because he takes care of them he says he is a great dad. So my question is Are you considered a good dad if you only care about the children you have in your home and youonly pay support without reaching out to the children you abandoned emotionally Is that right that he pays his support because he is forced to by the state, Is it right is he a good dad when his twelve year old son is hurting because his father blames everything, one whatever and does not want his other children someone enlighten me please....
2 responses
@elenivozaxojevon (20)
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20 Apr 08
And he has the nerve to call himself a good dad... Oh please.... If he is not forced by the state to pay for his abandoned children's support i dont think he's going to support them.... If he does not want his other children so be it.... i dont think his abandoned children likes him too...
@my5now (4)
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20 Apr 08
As a matter of fact my son is his first and he is heading in that direction of hating him because the way he treats him. The secon child has already taken the role of you don't want me well then scr-w u it is just so sad that if would only make the effort to say hey I love you maybe you know when he is eighty in a nursing home one of his kids could be forgiving enough to him.
@shoelessjoe (81)
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20 Apr 08
Acting like a good father is what its all about not just being seen to be a good father.
@my5now (4)
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20 Apr 08
thank you sometimes I wonder if he uses the whole situation to get back at me for standing up for what I believe to be right, I mean I don't expect a miracle just want my son to be happy but his father I guess can't handle more than just being the childsupport. which is so sad!!! do you think I should try something else? Ive told himto get a councilor to deal with his issues to put the past behind him like I have but he does not seem to think hes the one who needs it.
@shoelessjoe (81)
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20 Apr 08
No I think you have done all you can,some people you just cant help and maybe one day he will want to know his son and it will be to late then,It will be his loss