I Grew Up Without a Father

But I was fortunate enough to have a healthy relationship with him as an adult.

I started life without parents, whisked away to foster care at birth from a mother who had no real relationship with the man who fathered me and at nearly 30 was still dependent on parents who didn't want to bear the shame of an...

Hi all , I just want to share how am I feeling as a growing adult who has grown into maturity knowing only a Mothers love. He died when I was 2 yrs of age, before I could put a face to the name which left my only understanding being...

My grandmother raised me and my siblings. My Mother was there with us. I still felt incomplete though. But now I'm a young adult and i have a new Step dad. I like him. He took me and my mom to the movies twice and out to eat at a...

Once I read a story about our famous actor. He had handycaped mum,who died when he was 20....People were saying to him Oh you poor little thing and he started to feel different than the others, in a negative way...He began to put a wall...

Mt mother never told me a lot about my father. When I was growing up she told me that a stork brought me to her. I didn't know anything about sex, even though she had boyfriends. I learned where babies came from when I was 8 and I read...

My father sent us to live in another country when I was 6 years old. He supported us financially, but we hardly saw him or heard from him. When he was around he was mean to my mother. He never called or wrote. He was never there at...

i really cant say much except ive never meet my father . i sometimes think i ahave to be like him because i show no quality of my mother . since my mother wasnt in my life until the age of fourteen i was put in foster care then after a...

I was eight years old when my father passed away due to lung cancer. Before then I had a good relationship with him but his death was sudden and camed a shock, exspecailly since I was that young and didn't really understand all too much...

He is still alive and he always been around, he didn't leave me when I used to be a kid. But he never been there for me as a father who should be there for his daughter. I never knew a father in my life. He might be my father by name...

I want to be your baby girl. I want to mean something to you.
   Can you hug me? Can you hold me? Can you tell me everything is going to be alright? I want to wake up and smile because I know you're making breakfast for me. I want to...

My father met my mother when he was stationed overseas during his time in the military. He dated my mother for 3 years before she got pregnant with me. When she was 4 months pregnant he told her he was married and had to go back to the...

What do I know about my father?
Only that I have one! No name, no face, no adress, not even a small hint of remembrance in my childhood! He was never in my life nor was he actually in my moms life.Even my big bro knows nothing! But he...

My dad was in prison most of my life. Before he went to prison.. I was too young to remember him. When i was younger my grandmother (his mom) would take me to visit him. But it was like i didn't know who he was. I was born in Indiana so...

I believe any man can be a father. That's the easy part though. The hard part is being a dad. Maybe that's why he didn't stay. He wanted the easy role. My father was very abusive to my mother before my sisters and I were born. Our...

My dad left when I was 2 to be with a stripper.I have only seen him once since then when I was around 5 or 6 he took me to McDonald's.I wish that I would have got to know him & see who he was.I now live in a different state from him. It...

My mother passed away on Tuesday, and her last gift to me was the identity of my father. I've since contacted him and we've corresponded, and I've sent him some information to help my claim. He's offered to pay to fly me out to England...

I'm 16 years old and a sophomore in high school. My dad has never really been in my life. I mean I think he may of tried but I was young and didn't really understand. He always goes to jail but I want to get him on the right track but I...

My parents got married when my mom was very pregnant, and three and a half weeks after their wedding, I was born. My father works in an oil patch, and I didn't see him a lot when I was a kid. Most of the photos I have are of me, my mom...

Death didn't take my father jail did my father hit my mother when she was pregnant wih my brother he would never lay a hand on me because he thinks I'm his little girl but the only thing we have in common is DNA he was never in my life...