I got a girl knocked up when I was only 20 and not even close to being ready for a family, I was playing guitar in a traveling band and was only home occasionally, I couldn’t stand her but stayed with her for the duration of the pregnancy and until my daughter was 5 and then fought for and got FULL custody of my kiddo and raised her by myself from there on out without a single penny of child support from the deadbeat mom, I gave up a career in music that I was gung ho about before and NEVER regretted giving up doing what I loved to take care of my child and give her a normal childhood !
I hear of men that don’t take care of their own kids and don’t have any contact with them and only pay child support to keep out of jail, I know a couple of deadbeat dads personally and if you don’t take care of your own kids then you’re a worthless piece of rat crap and I wish you every bit of bad karma possible!!
On the other side of the coin I had a conversation with a member here who adopted his wife’s son from her previous husband and is a dad to that child and my hat is off to him and any other parent that steps up to take on someone else’s child !
With all that said I’m just curious of how many men here raised a child alone ?
I hear of men that don’t take care of their own kids and don’t have any contact with them and only pay child support to keep out of jail, I know a couple of deadbeat dads personally and if you don’t take care of your own kids then you’re a worthless piece of rat crap and I wish you every bit of bad karma possible!!
On the other side of the coin I had a conversation with a member here who adopted his wife’s son from her previous husband and is a dad to that child and my hat is off to him and any other parent that steps up to take on someone else’s child !
With all that said I’m just curious of how many men here raised a child alone ?