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Personal Narrative: Living Without An Absent Father Figure

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Losing my father at a very young age and realizing with tears in my eyes that he might never come back to his family, especially to me. This made the prospect of life and the world a lot bigger as well as intimidating and the thought of not having a father around terrified me greatly. Living without a fatherly figure was the most challenging obstacle have ever had to overcome. Everyone needs a male role model to influence how they will grow up into a young prosperous man. The absent father figure in my childhood was a difficult obstacle to overcome because I never met due to him leaving his family for another woman, I was disappointed and alone, this event impacted emotionally. For example, in the article “Single Parent Families Cause Juvenile

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