DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOLHe finished high school and joined Daystar University for a degree in Electronic Media. Savings from his mother’s businesses saw him through high school and up to Third Year in the university. “I got a girlfriend, now my wife, who understood my situation and helped me understand how to nurture my masculinity in the absence of a father,” says the father to two daughters. A study on Causal Effects of Father Absence notes that a father’s absence negatively affects children’s social-emotional development. These effects, it says, may be more pronounced if father absence occurs during early childhood than during middle childhood and they may be more pronounced for boys than for girls.

Source: Daily Nation August 10, 2020 11:26 UTC