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

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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.

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.

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.