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

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: 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.

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Summary: how to excuse the absent father
Review: 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.

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Summary: Are you serious???!!!
Review: 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.