Father’s Day and a lack of a Father in my Life

Yesterday was  Father’s Day, where many other families here in the States give gratitude and appreciation to the fathers in their lives. Some people, who have single mothers attempt to get another day of apprecation in the form of discounted Craftsman or Rigid tools that typically are given to the fathers or dads. (I can attest!)
In a serious note, this month is often depressing for me, along with that June is a typical graduation month for high school aged people in New England, other parts do it earlier in the year because they start the school year earlier. On point, I haven’t been around my father since my early existance. He obviously was never my dad, and I do not have any memories of him, nor do I even know what he looks like! My grandfather disappeared in my life when I was in second grade.
Both men were negative figures for my mother. My grandfather was very ingorant, and also very arrogant that he knew what was right. Talk about an oxymoron! He was very narrow minded on which member of my family would be the winner and which would be the looser – while he didn’t use that phrase directly, you know what I mean. He never did anything wrong, and obviously this kinda love didn’t go to well with my mother. He didn’t care about her, maybe didn’t really love her?
My mother was puzzled about relationships too. She was trying to find someone that she felt she could love. She thought my father was going to be it. Well about a year into their relationships – my mother got pregnant, he told her that he didn’t believe it, and made some pretty derogtory comment, that he didn’t believe her, demanding her to prove it…I think you can understand the fact that my mother got screwed by this guy. According to my mother he often said “you’re stupid” “you don’t think”, etc. etc.  I cannot understand how hurtful those statements were addressed, but such “verbal abuse” was the catalyst to seperate my father out of my life and her life as well. This period of time from my own expierence with my own mother is what probably caused the emotional makeup of what my mother is today and what made her a lady.
The kind of behaivor shouldn’t been a news alert. He was the popular guy in high school, he also was the typical Southern NH snotty brat from the mid 80s standards, and he was in  athletic clubs at the local high school. He also  had many under age parties at his parents house. *you know, it doesn’t help when one is part Catholic and you know that the Catholics love to party, you know?* The funny thing was he lived in an area of the middle class, not the startup of the upper middle class which accelerated the town by the end of the 1980s, where many of those kids I knew from school would their parents move to.
I knew more about my father when I was older than 21 than I was younger. The very naive self back when I was about 8 (and this is going to sound really lame) but I really thought I randomly came here, untill some kids in school probed about my father to me. And my mother explained honestly that she was with my father for a period of time and both when their ways.
To this day, sans my naive self, I still felt like I came here randomly out of illlogic, and coming here with the intent that I wouldn’t have a father in my life. If you belive that a god or God exists, you’d think there would be logic that given how much a jackass (and I should say that even stronger – a JACKASS) why would he give me life?
What started the real troubles of missing a father was the most illogical places and time of my life. Middle school. I was in a middle school program in another part of the state, and it was my classmates, my peers and a teacher’s assistant who was just new to my program that started to basically pick on or not be discrete that my father wasn’t in my life. The last name I carry in my life is life of my father, and these students and paraprofessionals went out of their bounderies of bringing up a guy I never really knew. This was never challenged because I went to the program in Massachusetts by that July, but one or two of the staff people there did probe me about my father too.
Staff or students need to be very careful if there is no mention of the father, then it might be best to not ask. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell anyone?
And whats really sad is how society is very judgemental about the lack of a father in society. Yes I have done this subject on this blog on an often basis, but I am also aware that fathers don’t always work for all families and yes, mothers that are single should not do both roles. It doesn’t work. I am not going to even touch the welfare issue because it makes me sick. What makes me sick even more is how our newsgathering networks are not even covering inter/national events instead to being the FM/HD Talk Radio for cable news. The Fox News Networks including the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network have been on a tirade (yes an assault) against single mothers and women being the sole breadwinners and the lack of fathers in families. This kind of content is being aired during what other networks are in a “newswheel” or the “Trading Day”. The talent ranges from Lou Dobbs, Charles Payne, Eric Bolling, to even the Chief Moonbat Commentator Juan Williams in the most recent attacks defending somewhat of the nuclear family values.
I can attest a nuclear family actually causes families to blow up and actually fall part. Maybe it is right to not focus on our families as much, but you will never hear that from FNC. Never mind they won’t hold the family accountable who lost 2 children in an NYC shooting allegedly from their nanny. Even if its an NBC employee, because FNC loves to attack people at NBC – but they won’t because that father was the breadwinner and since he’s an exec at CNBC, because heaven forbid its so socially inappropriate to say that rich people shouldn’t have the right to have children, even when the nanny will be raising the children. You’ll see more blog posts on the Krimm family having their child instead of a public dialogue if parents of all classes should have the same right of having a child. *Cue the crickets*.
Regardless a “news” operation that is supposed to be doing their duty to cover news, should not (and I MEAN SHOULD NOT) be a goddamned soap box by expressing fathers should be fathering every children. Leave it to the Web and the bloggers, and NOT what Payne and Dobbs are telling my asswipe father from the Valley (or wherever he is now) should be parenting me! It is not your GODDAMNED business to be caring about everyone else! Go do your stupid stock picks instead of being the crossdressing narrow-demographic targeted, blue collared man BUT dressed as a classy, liberal* newsman to be taken seriously! 
*Reports and targets to a mass audience of all groups, all races, all civil backgrounds, all minds, and not just the middle class or the upper middle class, unlike Bolling, Payne or Dobbs.
So yea, I miss having a father, but I try to live day to day and not be judged just because I don’t have a dad or have simialar expirences to my “normal” likeminded people of my age.

Fathers

This post has since been updated
I find the “father figure” is becoming a dying breed. I think its even endangered at this point.
That’s pretty dangerous if you ask me.
As you already know I have been raised without my father for almost my entire life. As time has gone on, I’ve started to realize what the powerful role of a father is supposed to be.
Fathers are supposed to be reassuring to the mother, by not over protecting her son.
Fathers are supposed to be there for the hard times, and to reassure the family (or individuals) that things will be Ok. The father has to protect, (or even over) protect their daughter. Typically if a daughter isn’t raised by her father, the mother, wouldn’t be overprotecting her. The theories of early puberty and over maturity can attribute to the lack of a father in her life.
Fathers are supposed to have some level of authority as well.
Now I really feel that the times have gone so modern that the father has no role for his family. Fathers aren’t getting their hands dirty like changing diapers, (no pun intended) or getting down on the floor and building Lego with the son or attending a tea party in the daughter’s bedroom, or advocating for their children during budget season when their special needs children are going to fall into the cracks in coming months or years. This role has been a motherly monopoly and the fact that its all “motherly” (like excessive emotions) makes it even worse in my opinion.
The logic of the father being the bread winner is I think outdated. In recent years in the Great Recession Depression after 2008, most career causalities were the Midtown Big Banks, and mostly those were white collared and mostly a male workforce. And many of those were unemployed right in the midst of the what I call is the Great Depression. But we as a society still are sexist, because even if there is more working women, we still look down at them, and not look up to men in a different standard.
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Back a couple months ago, there was murder in New York City, 2 children died, I believe they were both 2 year olds, the cause I don’t know, because there has been a few to none follow up stories. The NYPD had questioned the various parties, and again I don’t know the details since. The parents of those two murdered children appeared to be executives and was raised by a nanny. The father recently gotten a job running the digital operations at the New Jersey based business channel, CNBC.
This job wasn’t a simple webmaster or building apps for the iPhone/iPad, but more of an executive commuting to various places and monitoring Excel spreadsheets, since this man came from Discovery Communications. I do not know anything about the mother. CNBC.com featured a 1 minute video memo on their website (see link above), after this horrific episode of crime, with the managing editor giving his condolences.
Since this has happened a couple months ago, I feel there should be a discussion about the right to have children of all classes. We typically think teenage girls to early twentysomething girls or ones that live on welfare to get bennies; but we never look at the higher class, net worth types (like this CNBC executive)  and whether or not they should have the right to have children.
Don’t get me wrong, I live in America and we should have freedom to choose, but that comes with responsibilities! If you are a desperate 20 year old to someone who is climbing the corporate ladder, you need to think twice if you want to have children. Sorry, its my straight up opinion! Having a child is a lot of responsibility, and you can’t just knock up a girl or woman and then screw her after the child is born. That logic is the same if you have a child, then see them only on weekends or twice a day. You are doing you child – your family a disservice! 
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A while back, Johnson & Johnson had ran an ad campaign showing proverbial memories of parent and child and the commercial ended with the following tagline.
Having a baby changes everything.
When you reflect on that campaign, it wasn’t targeting any age bracket or what. The fact is, no matter how old you are, a baby changes your life, and your family and puts added responsibilities.
There is a growing issue in America, the lack of being a responsible and accountable citizen to society. We’ve seen this statement being repeated over and over in this past year alone. And unfortunately its men whether he’s a street loaner, to a white collared executive, the commonality is we are becoming a fatherless society. We as a society should be ashamed and we should start to ask some serious questions like are parents really committed to have children, are we really going to stay together for the long run, and not stay married for the children’s sake or am I going to be responsible for my child’s welfare?
I think that is some starting points for an open and larger discussion of the role of parents, mostly on the father.
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