Dear Dr. Amy:
Thanks for nothing!
The headline in your latest blog asks if fathers are still necessary, then you go on to state some current opinions to support the fact that father's are no longer needed.
However, your post then shifts gears and states"Fathers are not optional, though. " From here on, you give compelling arguements as to why fathers are needed.
I was hoping your arguement would support your headline, but it didn't.
This means I can't ditch my family and run-off in a cherry-red Corvette with some barey-legal, platinum-blonde nymphet and live out all my sophomoric male fantasies until the day I die.
Now, thanks to you, I have to stay with my family and continue to be the responsible man that I am. Thanks to you, my child will grow up and say, "My dad was always there for me." or "He wasn't perfect, but he was there."
Thanks to you, my child will not have to go to therapy because I was some irresponsible jerk who left his family.
I was hoping for an out, but you didn't.
Thanks. Thanks a lot.
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You're making me laugh on a very cranky night.
I knew she was stupid, but now I know she is crazy. You will soon realize how much she really sucks and what she is willing to do for page hits.
This is the same woman who is ok with Palestinian children being blown to pieces and burned to ash with white phos. Yet she is now so concerned with children and their happiness. monkey fingered.
Sorry she dashed your dreams.
I think she is amused by us and we are her hamsters in this tank.
She is good, very good.
Get ready for a razor-cut comment from the doc. She never met a post she didn't like to obliterate with her warmth.
http://open.salon.com/blog/founder/2009/02/24/birth_control_is_taking_life_face_it
NOW that's entertainment.
I rated the article in protest of this Dr. Amy person. I hear she eats heads of human resources raw like sushi!! ~crying~
@ Grif, "Ominous warning, I failed to heed."
@ Pucci, thanks for clarifying. I'll ammend my bare-back ways and double up.
May she will advocate for eliminating child support, too.
"Noticed she finally came out and said she grew up without a father.... she's confused. 'nuf said!"
Maybe she has some insight into this, having lived it. Fathers should not be regarded as "optional". It just makes for selfish behavior. My husband ex-wife moved with their 2 kids 3000 miles away from their father. And he is an amazing and great father. But she wasn't "happy" and "missed the ocean". Not great reasons to make your kids fatherless (he can only afford to fly them here 2x/year and couldn't afford the lawyer to fight to make her stay). I don't believe people have to be married to have children, and even single women should be able to have the choice. However, when a great father is in the picture, he shouldn't just be discarded, and the rights of the children to have that father in their lives (daily) should not be "optional".
Trudge, Good for you for sticking around... many don't. My first comment was to point out that Dr. Amy is wishy washy, and heck, I have only been here a week!
My 2nd comment is that I refuse to argue with anyone over this... people are different, relationships are different... some fathers are skanks, some mothers are skanks, some do well on their own, others do not. The bottom line is that kids need love. If you don't give it to them, they will wind up finding it someplace else. Me, I prefer to let my children know I love them unconditionally. So, does their father and he is 6,965 miles away. They have no doubt in their mind that they are loved.
"Lois, fat men aren't fat. Only fat women are fat."
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That avatar is none other that the Late Great John Belushi. People have compared me to him. I would have preferred George Clooney, but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I have to be compared to the greatest comic of his time! Big shoes to fill.