Where's Daddy?: How Divorced Single Widowed Mothers Can Provide What's Missing When Dad's Missin [Paperback]

Claudette Wassil-Grimm (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1995

A guide for single mothers offers a positive approach for building a secure one-parent home, showing how to deal with the negative effects of a fatherless home, discussing why some fathers remain distant from their children, and much more. Reprint. PW.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

About half of today's children live in single-parent households (usually with a mother) at some point during childhood. It is also estimated that 66% of noncustodial fathers see their children less than once a month (and 50% less than once a year). Moreover, 52% of such fathers do not pay child support. Citing these figures, Wassil-Grimm ( How to Avoid Your Parents' Mistakes When You Raise Your Children ) explains some of the reasons why fathers may disappear from their kids' lives and includes case histories illustrating the varying viewpoints of parents and children. She offers custodial parents suggestions to help keep noncustodial parents emotionally and financially involved. Finally, Wassil-Grimm shows single mothers how to force ex-husbands to make child support payments, if necessary with help from the government, and how to obtain Social Security benefits. The author covers these issues and others in a constructive yet realistic spirit, aiding single mothers without bad-mouthing fathers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Overlook TP (November 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879516275
• ISBN-13: 978-0879516277
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,881,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Are you serious???!!!, June 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Where's Daddy?: How Divorced, Single, and Widowed Mothers Can Provide What's Missing When D (Hardcover)

This book was a waste of money and the author appears to be out of touch with reality.

While I expected a useful guide of what to tell my child when he asks about his absent father, and how to make growing up easier for him without the valuable influence of a father, I instead got advice on how to grovel and push my son into a man's life who wants nothing to do with him.

This book made me angry. Being a father is not my responsibility, I can do nothing more than have an open door policy and be a good, supportive mother. This book portrayed mothers as vengeful and without having their children's best interest at heart.

Considering the author is a stepmother, and was so during a custody/visitation dilemma regarding her husband's children, her advice seems just a bit one-sided. Women do not have to continue to coddle their ex-husbands/boyfriends/etc., because they have children together. It is not necessarily in the children's best interest to continue having a father in their lives who does not wish to be there.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars how to excuse the absent father, June 25, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Where's Daddy?: How Divorced, Single, and Widowed Mothers Can Provide What's Missing When D (Hardcover)

If you want to know how to be extra supportive of the father of your children, no matter how terrible/immature/selfish he may be, this is the book for you! I was amazed this book has been written by a female since all the author indicates throughout the book is: lets see things from their point of view. I got this book so I could get practical advice on how to fulfill the gaps in my child's life, and all I got is more frustrated. This book was made to understand why men leave, why they dont care and why their ego prevents them from keeping a relationship with their children. This book is full of excuses for the absent father.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, February 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Where's Daddy?: How Divorced, Single, and Widowed Mothers Can Provide What's Missing When D (Hardcover)

I thought this book would give me advice on rasing a child without a father. It did. Her advice? Keep the father in the picture. If the father could/would be around, I wouldn't need this book.

Also the parts on unwed mothers was pathetic. All it talked about was teen mothers and fathers.