The Editor, Sir:

In the article on Sunday, April 22, the single-father home is totally left out. Over and over, the single-father home has proved to be one of the best places for children to grow up. You need to interview some kids from single-dad homes and research some of the fathers to get the real picture.

One of the main differences between a single-dad home and a single-mom home is that in the latter, the mother is convinced that she can be both mother and father to the children, much based on the myth, "the mother who fathered me." This makes the father redundant, except to provide child support, as she believes that any contact with his children is not important and even counter-productive.

But, in a single-father home, the dad knows he 'cannot' be both father and mother, so he ensures that the mother plays a role and keeps in touch with her kids, or provides a stepmother or female close by, so the kids still have as close as possible, a two-parent family. Some single-father homes are even superior to some two-parent families living together, as the kids don't have to endure the bitterness and abuse of one parent against the other, and worse, the belittling of their father. And we single fathers do it all 'without collecting child support'.

I am, etc.,

LANNY DAVIDSON

fathersinaction@gmail.com

(single custodial dad)

Via Go-Jamaica