What are some negative effects for a girl that grows up without a father?

Question

ex. He left the family before she was born.

Baba:
Mum is single parent, has other kids to take care of and struggles to provide for them. And she herself never had a father. ....If you catch my drift.

Answer 1

"One of the best things a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

Some of the positive effects of growing up with a father:

A father can teach his daughters how she should expect to be treated by a man by how he treats her mother.

Her relationship with her father teaches her that she deserves to be loved and cherished. That she is deserving of being treated specially by any man that claims to love her.

She will observe over the years the interaction between her parents in many different situations and know that there is no circumstance in which violence, harshness, or unkindness is ever permissible.

She will not have an unhealthy craving for male attention, love, and affirmation. She will have grown up knowing what that means. She will probably have greater confidence and self-esteem.

Despite the opinion of many, fathers come in handy.

Answer 2

It depends on why she grew up without a father. Because why she grew up without a father could say a lot about the mother. Or it could say a lot about the father. Or both. Any of which helps to determine how it affects the child. ( Yes a father who wants to be with his children but can't affects them differently than a father who can be with them but does not want to.) This is a big subject and there is not a lot of space to type, but why is a very important issue.

Answer 3

A girl that grows up without a father or brother(s) doesn't usually know how to react around boys. She tends to be shy and won't know much about them except from movies, etc. But there's girls who aren't like that too. The most common problem for girls without fathers is resentment. They don't understand why they left and they don't get the love that they should've gotten.

Answer 4

I grew up without a dad(divorce); it isn't always good, yet we each have to decide what it is that we want and what we are going to do. Being with out a dad, no matter the reason is no cause to suddenly believe this person is going to have a negative life that is so defeating. Try to think of something positive you can do for her; something positive you can say to her; show her something positive. That's what I did for myself and mine threw me in a mental ward because he didn't want me around (I lived with him and his wife for a spell as an adult)

Answer 5

Well, as I've been married to a wife from just such a situation, and I myself, also hail from a fatherless background, let me tell you just some of the obvious pitfalls:

It is very difficult for her to just let go and trust in male leadership and standards in the home.

She does not naturally possess an inclination towards the touch and interactive physical contact and affection that normally simply exists female to male and vice-versa.

The usual male-female roles become harder to define, or more obscure re clarity.

It is hard to get the support needed when disciplining or leading the children in various principles you would like to see observed in a home. The downwind of this is that as the children grow, they have confusing standards or 'messages' with which to direct their own lives, which can also lead to a loss of personal confidence in their own standards as they mature.

It is also extremely hard to get the support needed in some career the husband wishes to pursure, or in some typical 'male interest or venture' he wishes to pursue or undertake in life.

It is an established researched fact that fathers help youth of both sexes better define their roles in life than mothers.
So, such growing young ladies would also miss this.

While growing up, her mother does not have the advantage of moral support of a second parent. [Of course, paqrents need to be of similar background and values and ideals for this to work properly anyway, but w/o father, it is, of course, impossible]


Males also tend to exhibit certain qualities and a certain presence generally.
This leadership would be missing in her life.

Answer 6

I've noticed that girls who grow up without fathers often don't know how to behave properly with men, and sometimes find themselves in bad relationships. However, these are generally girls who didn't have much of a familial support system at all and didn't have good male role models in their uncles or grandfather. My mother personally thinks that she couldn't have raised her three daughters without my dad's constant support. Men have an important role to play in a girl's life, but it doesn't necessarily have to be as her father

Answer 7

My dad sucked. He was abusive and manipulative.

Sure, it hurt when he abandoned us. Sure, I was depressed. Yes, I tried to off myself when I was eight years old. But I'm better off now than I would have been if my mother had stayed with the jerk. I've learned that I need to make my own path in life.

Answer 8

well,i think something would be missing in her life,i mean its hard for her to see her friends going places with dad,when she doesnt,so she may start looking for attention in other ways.
sex maybe,being wanted.i think the hardest time would be teenage onwards

Answer 9

Early childhood trauma can lead to serious mental health issues such as depression, mood disorders, personality disorders, etc.

Answer 10

being abandoned can create insecurity, and single parenting by either parent is rough. it increases the chances of all sorts of bad things, but it doesn't mean anything bad WILL happen. you just have to teach her that she is loved and be positive. she doesn't need that deadbeat sperm doner to make her life any better.