Best Parents

Since mothers give birth and are generally the nurturers in the family, we tend to discount the importance of a dad's role in the family. That is one of the few traditional roles that have stuck with us since the days when fathers were hunters and mothers gathered wood for the day's meal. Fathers were often absent and today still, this is often the case. An absent dad adds pressure to a mother's already heavy load. Not only does she physically have to do everything, but she has to be there emotionally Read more [...]

Some people seem to think that a Dad only becomes important when his son needs taking to football practice or his daughter needs a lift to ballet lessons. However, there are hundreds of published research papers that prove beyond any doubt that Dad is indispensable. A summary of the major benefits arising for a child brought up with Dad as well as mum are listed below; Dads matter because.... 1. Children raised with their dads have better social skills when at nursery age and will do better at Read more [...]

Being a father is not necessarily the "be all" and "end all" of the male existence as compared to what motherhood is for many women. The biggest difference is probably in the biology. Whereas women are biologically wired to be a mother, fatherhood may be more of an incidental or sometimes even an accidental occurrence. It's kind of hard to describe, but though men are needed in order to procreate, their role, once the creation part is done, has historically, and yes, biologically Read more [...]