Kim
“The Friday after my sweet sixteen I had a large party and I dance with my Father in front of all my friends. By Sunday he had packed his things and moved to Mexico.”
Lisa Walker
“…she decided to tell me that my father had never died and that he was probably still in prison somewhere, but she had no idea where. I was confused and I didn’t know what was true anymore, but I did have a glimmer of hope that I would one day see my father.”
SetCaptivesFree
“Then soon someone came along in my life who introduced me to something I hadn't really known before. I was only 15 but for the first time in my life had a male person love me. My father had left my mother when I was just four years old. So I had never known a father. It was a big gap in my life.”
Scot Crone
“You may be asking where were my parents? Well my dad was absent (I never really knew him until I was about 13)…”
Jody Hall
“His mother went away while he was still a baby, leaving him with a dad who was in and out of jail. Jody often had to live with friends or other family members.”
Star Burch
“I grew up like a lot of kids today, with just a mother and my father wasn't around much. I knew who he was, so I guess in that respect I was more fortunate then others.”