A Personal Essay: Growing Up Without A Father

Growing up without a father; a painful experience
While having an awesome dad can help you become an awesome man, growing up fatherless can also take away your joy of becoming a better father.
Like millions of people, my friend; Philip grew up in a single parent household. Philip’s Dad was implicated at that time when the Grand mum was pregnant of him and died in the prison. The grand Dad was from Accra the Capital of Ghana, where he was leaving and working. He followed his senior sister who was married there to Aburi a small town of Akuapim district also of Eastern Region of Ghana where he met the Grand Mum and had her as a girlfriend. According to the father the granddad’s family where well to do people but after his death the parents came

It’s been over a decade since he left, so for the majority of the crucial developmental times of his youth, he had no father.
As we all know, growing up in a single-parent household means that the children are more likely to live close or at the poverty line while the parent tries to make ends meet. This is very difficult for everyone, and growing up fatherless brings its own set of difficulties for boys.
The statistics about single-parent households make you believe that every boy who grows up with one parent ends up on drugs, unsuccessful, and in prison, but that’s simply not true. Because of growing up fatherless, he had stayed away from destructive activity and crime and has instead comport himself into being a successful person and towards a mission of changing millions of lives in a positive way.
During this hardship he said he was taught a lot of things about being a man from growing up fatherless. Here are 6 lessons that he learned:
“What’s the difference?” you might be asking. Well, a father is a proper term for a male that produces a child. But in the eyes of a kid, a father is a “dad” or “daddy.” It’s a name that has to be earned; earned by being supportive of your child both financially and mentally. You don’t become a “dad” without working hard for it or without being there whenever your kids need