Saturday, February 14, 2009 @7:26 PM
Since its Valentine's today, let share that little bit of love and concern.
Chanced on this project by Timothy Goodman :
KIDS NEED DADS
• Children growing up in single-parent households are 10 times
more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.
• Daughters of single parents are 164% more likely to have a
premarital birth.
• Fathers who spend time alone with their kids at least two times
a week raised children who were the most compassionate adults.
• Children growing up in single-parent households are 20 times
more likely to become rapists.
• 75% of fatherless children are living in poverty.
• The amount of time a father spends with his child—one on one—
averages less than 10 minutes a day.
• 70% of fathers feel they have too little time with their children.
• 3 in 10 households are maintained by women with no
husband present.
• 50% of mothers see no value in the father’s continued contact
with his children.
• 11% of mothers value their husband’s input when it comes to
handling problems with their kids.
• 59% of all black children are fatherless.
"I have never met my biological father. And I found
it especially important to seek out others from my
generation, to learn what their experience had
been, to share my own experience and to get this very common problem out in the world."
Timothy Goodman
Exhibition:
He printed and packaged hundreds of index cards, asking students at the School of Visual Arts to anonymously tell him, in one sentence, how they felt about their dad.
In one sentence, how do you feel about your dad?
"Well, he's my dad so i guess i have to love him."
"He raped me when i was in high school; after that things were awkward to say the least."
"My father is a verbally abusive cheapskate whose terrible parenting skills threw me into a whirlwind of depression and anxiety by the time i was nine ( i am still recovering)"
"My father buys my love"
"When i am with my father i feel safe that in that moment nothing can happen to either of us."
"My dad isnt perfect but he loves his family more than anything and sacrifices alot to support us."
"He is the person with all the answers and none of the judgements."
Heartwrenching?
Now the question to ask is, are we RESPONSIBLE for our actions?
Children are innocent and yet they becomes the victims of a broken relationship.
Love for the partner ends, but what of the child's?
How do one give love, when they arent even sure of the love they have, when they are uncertain about their own actions?
Is there enough love to be shared around?