Reader Response "Dear Dads: Save Your Sons"

Reader Response Essay “What 's to become of boys like this? What man will take interest in them? I can only think of one kind-a judge” (Dear Dads: Save Your Sons 11). This quote was said by Christopher N. Bacorn in his essay about father figures. It is interesting to see how how people see fathers, and what they think of them. He wrote about the need teenagers and children have to have a father and how it effects them to not have one. He also says how having a substitute father figure can help a child with their issues in life. I agree with the overall opinion of “Dear Dads: Save Your Sons” because I can relate to the different scenarios told in the essay, and because his view points about a father 's presence in a home is supported by research. My opinion was that I agreed with the essay about sons needing fathers was because I could and can relate. When I was younger my mother and grandmother were worried about why I was so angry and resentful in our home. They took me to talk with a psycholigist more than once to see what what wrong with me. I gave the typical answer a teenager would give, which was that nothing was wrong with me. The psychologist would not have that answer, and eventually got the reason why I was like that. The reason being that I had no father figure in my home, or so he said. I had father figures around me, such as scout leaders and church fathers, but apparently they did not have enough influence on me to make it so I was not angry at home. I eventually learned to stop being angry at not having a father and grew up, but I still remember the times it would 've been ideal to have a father figure at home. There has been some research done on how having a father figure in the home could help the youth of today. “Children with Fathers who are involved are 70% less likely to drop out of school” (Father Factor in Education 3). If a father is involved with their child, then that child is more like to succeed in life with an education that

Cited: Bacorn, Christopher. “Dear Dads: Save Your Sons”. Evergreen. Susan Fawcett. Boston: Wadsworth 2014. 599. print “The Fatherless Generation.” thefatherlessgeneration.wordpress.com/statistics/. Web. 10/11/13