Father’s Day can bring about all sorts of complicated feelings, especially when the fatherly relationship was always strained. So when one young man publicly thanked the mother who raised him alone, ...

Men who grew up without a father tend to evolve in a much different way than men who did. And you can spot a man whose father was absent by these 10 specific behaviors.

Family wounds can take years, even decades, to heal. And sometimes, they never heal at all. In this story from Reddit, a person is having a hard time trusting their father after he didn’t take his ...

“I have a 4-year-old son whose biological father has wanted nothing to do with him. The bio-father tried to talk me into terminating the pregnancy. In the course of settling custody he waived his ...

DEAR HARRIETTE: My father and I are estranged and have been my entire life. He and my mom had me when they were young — 19 or 20, I believe. My mom loved me and did the best she could with me, and her ...

Camilo grew up surrounded by adults, yet without a stable father. His mother moved from one relationship to another, each new man arriving with promises of permanence and leaving with silence. By the ...