FROM A DAD WHO CARES
Jun 01 '00 (Updated Jun 03 '00)
As a husband and a father of, two I will do all I can so my children and wife can live a life of comfort and ease.
I work at a local store where my schedule bounces between evening and day. The worst thing for me is missing my children growing up. Am I a bad father for going to work so we can have food, electric, a house to live in no,I do not think so. I love my children dearly and continue to work on my self-employed business so that I can stay at home with my children. However, at the time I feel that I need that steady fifty hour job to bring in a regularly pay check.
There is nothing I want more than to stay at home with my family and grow together. Too many people do not take the responsibilities of working and not taking care of their children or families. I have a so-called cousin who had a child out of wedlock and left town never to see his child again. He has not given and moral support, financial support, or shown any love in any way towards his child to me this is sad.
If the men of our time would take on their responsibilities then there would be less heartache. With me working, the hours I do we barley make the bills to live. I hope someday this will change. I do not believe it is wrong to work to support your family and daily, weekly, and monthly bills I do believe it is wrong to work to stay away from your family. Our children need their daddies just as much they need food or a place to lay their head and call home.
Do I believe that women should not work or support the family, no, I do not. I want to be in a finical situation where my wife does not have to work if she does not want to. I do not mind if she works. If she were to get a job, she liked and wanted to support the family I would support her but I would still prefer it to be me.
Society puts to many emphases on the man doing the work and the women staying at home with the children. I believe that we as men need to stay at home with the children at least once a week, or more, so we can grow closer to our children and know what it is like for our wives and mothers.
Mothers need time off, a mothers “job” is never done, and as that goes nether is the fathers. I love to play with my children when I get home from work. I love for my three year old daughter to run and jump in my arms and say “daddy your home lets go out side and play” or to see my one year old son’s smile and hear him fumble the words daddy when I go and pick him up.
I wish I had the income and money to stay at home with my wife and enjoy all these moments, and all the others I missed like my sons first step. However, I must bring home that steady paycheck so we can have the Niceties of life.
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Member: James McKinney
Location: in the great mountians
Reviews written: 29
Trusted by: 16 members
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