Whats worse for a boy, being fatherless or motherless?

[Anonymous]

like what is worse, him never knowing his father or mother?

fatherless is worse

motherless is worse

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[GuyAnswersGirls123]

For me at least, a lot of my difficulties was being somewhat fatherless. My parents divorced when I was young so I bounced back and forth between parents.

Even when I was with my father though, he remarried into a massive family (I had 2 stepsisters and 3 stepbrothers). So he had his hands full with them.

My mother tried her best when I was with her but it's still kind of obvious at the end of the day that there was a massive knowledge and experience gap here in terms of everything from endocrinology to social expectations and associated pressures that my mother had no idea how to relate towards.

So I looked for father figures of a variety elsewhere, in action heroes, in older guys that seemed really cool (including my elder stepbrother who rode motorcycles and played covers of Nirvana). If I was at that stage now, I might be an Andrew Tate fan since he's very successful.

It took me quite a long time though to find very mature examples: the ones not so cool who value things like marriage, responsibility, a life of integrity. I think if I had my father around more, I would have learned a lot of what I didn't even start learning until my mid-20s or so a lot sooner about how to be a good and decent man.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

What little time I spent with my father growing up though was gold. He shared a lot of wisdom with me like how to be a gentleman (beyond the rituals like walking on the side of the street with oncoming traffic) and the deeper ethics behind it, how the most powerful man is the one who has control over himself and his emotions (Stoic philosophy), etc.

I unfortunately ignored a lot of it during my rebellious teens and early adulthood when he wasn't around. Yet over the years, I reflect back on a lot of the things he taught me (I'm still learning now about how to be a proper man even in my 40s) and increasingly started to appreciate the wisdom behind it.

Still, if I had more time with him, I suspect I could have learned a lot sooner without all the trouble I got into along the way!

[aceleon]

fatherless and iam telling this as a guy who loves his mother more than everyone, being a fatherless boy means having no actual man role model and not knowing how to be a man which made all this beta cucks that spreaded through the world like covid, also the risk of having your mother slut around if there is no father in your life is high and if you are not a cuck no guys wants this.

[sage2021]

My husband's mother left him when he was five years old. Just walked out of his life and be er came back.

Ut must have messed him up in a way, that he couldn't live one day without a female his whole, which included cheating. Then abandoning them.

His second wife and I both agreed that he was like that with women because his mom abandoned him. True!

[Nikki1989]

It depends on the child. They are not all the same.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Neither is worse. Ideally a child needs both their mom and dad as the structure and support is doubled but what's most important is quality of that parent that loves and guides that child, not wheather the mom or dad is missing causing it to be worse.

[JacobJordan]

Fatherless. Especially when you look at the long term effects not having a father does on both boys and girls. All evidence to date points to the fact fathers are essential.

[AmandaYVR]

Both are a tragedy but being fatherless, a boy has no role model.

[exitseven]

I would say fatherless. That is why kids today are so screwed up. They are raisingle mothers. mothers.

[Jackblue]

I would say motherless, it isn't like mothers never discipline their children like some people seem to think. On the other hand men without mothers lack empathy.

[Anonymous]

Fatherless without a doubt. There's certain things a woman really can't do no matter how well meaning they may be. And teaching a boy to be a man is one.

[CozyCoffin]

Thankfully, I grew up mainly with my father.

[Danny_dan92]

Both parents play a crucial role to the development of a child

[OddBeMe]

I say both are bad for any child. But some research has me thinking opposite gendered parents have more affect on a child…

[DextroShade]

By every available measure fatherless children are much worse off.

[Bklynbadboy12]

Being motherless is worse. Nothing compares to the love you get from your mom

[Asker]

most votes say fatherless is worse

[Anonymous]

Both parents are important, but the same sex parent is especially crucial to the child's development.

[ab2shifty]

For me it would be fatherless, cause I wouldn’t be the person I am today

[QuietRunner]

Depends on the age

Teenage and up it is Fatherless, but he will have male role models

[TheSpaceGnome]

Both are bad.

[DaBiggestBird]

They’re equally as bad

[Massageman]

Being parentless.

[shortster]

Statistically fatherless.

[laly520]

both r worse

[MaterialisticMember]

Motherless