My papa died of a massive heat attack while eating breakfast at some restraunt. ... They day he died i rememeber running into my dads room asking to talk to papa on the phone. my dad looked at me, his face was beat red, for the first time i saw tears streaming down his face. ...
Communication Studies Research Methods In recent years, as divorce rates have climbed and family structures continue to deviate further from the two-parent household, much has been made of absentee fathers and the impact that it has on children, particularly boys. Many studies have suggested that the absence of a father often causes boys to drop out of school and become delinquent. Research will show that boys raised outside of intact marriages are, on average, more than twice as likely as other boys to wind up in jail -- with each year spent without a dad increasing the odds of futur...
