Absent Fathers Vs. Single Mothers

As little boys grow up, they are curious as to why their father is not around. In recent discussions of absentee fathers and single mothers, a controversial issue has been whether a father’s absence in their sons’ life have created a violent young man. Some may argue that an absent father will lead to violence within their son. From this perspective, little boys or young men grow up with hatred because they did not have a father to love them or show them how to be a man while growing up. On the other hand, however, others will argue that a single mother can do the job of both, a mother and father, and raise a successful man. Typically, many boys grow up with no father. Boys have stronger bonds with their father. A lot of people will agree

Lawson (2012) states that fathers play a crucial role in the lives of their children (p.806). many studies have linked absentee fathers as well as single mothers raising males to violence growing up. A boy not having a father can result in many negative factors. Social scientists agree that father-absence can contribute to crippling hurdles such as truancy, delinquency, poor academic performance and substance abuse. According to Joiner (2016) for some boys, their mental – health are not getting the attention required to help them heal and be made whole (p. 20). Young men or boys not having a father can drastically affect their life and their potential to succeed. Single mothers on the success of her sons’ development is another subject of research. Many people believe that single mothers could raise a successful son without his father in his life. I was not surprised to see researches that supported this claim. One study supported this claim. Robinson and Werblow (2013) studied the influence of single black mothers contributing to the educational success of their sixteen – seventeen-year-old sons’. This study focusses on high performing black males raised by single mothers, enrolled in failing schools. Today, boys will typically follow the “crowd”. However, in this study these young men followed their mother’s path to success, and now

In my opinion, there are more factors besides absentee fathers. Individual determination is one such factor. Everyone has a right to make their own choices, whether it’s negative or positive. Just because a boy has no father in his life, that should not make you turn to violence, he should want to be better than his father and show his mother that she did a wonderful job raising him by himself. I cannot speak on being raised by a single mother without my father, but one of my cousins were raised by his mother while his father was not around. Yes, he was upset that he did not have a father like all the other kids, but once he grew up, he realized that he had to be a better man than his father. He, is now in his third year of college. He is not on the streets like some of his friends that had the same opportunity as him, he went down the right path and I can say his mother has done a wonderful job raising him, because he is a successful young