Daddys are important

Mine certainly was.

I was sitting at a restaurant today waiting on my takeout and overheard a conversation between 2 women, possibly mother and daughter, both were adults. They were discussing the daughters of the younger woman and she said one of them was more likely than the other to come home pregnant because she had "the daddy love" issues. The mom then went into a tirade about her kids' dad who does not see them much. Dad is a jerk, no doubt. I don't know him but he's a jerk. But mommy has responsabilities too. She chose a jerk to make babies with. Or maybe she chose a man who did not want kids. Or maybe she made a unilateral decision to have a baby, hoping daddy would just fall into place. I've seen it happen a hundred times. Literally. I work with women with 3 or 4 kids, separate fathers, born from booty calls, not relationships and then these women expect daddy to be happy about the situation. They then wonder how their kids got so screwed up and go through life singing the single mom bullshit song.

Don't get me wrong. It takes 2 to play and consequences & responsabilities almost always fall on the mom, the primary caretaker. But women need to look at the person they decide to make a baby with and decide what kind of dad he'll be before the baby is a reality. Before the booty call, think of your child and whether they'll have "the daddy love" issues as they grow up. Moms should make better decisions.

I grew up with parents who were GASP!!! married to each other for almost 60 years and who were rocks in all our lives. Are daddys important? You are darn tootin they are!!