Man the situations with families is getting crazy these days. Yesterday my DD learned about familes at school and I told her how lucky she was to have a Daddy who loves her and lives with us. Well today her Daddy walked her to school and she proudly tells her classmates, "This is My Daddy and I love him and he lives with me."

This caused 2 of her classmates to start bawling their eyes out. One said she missed her Daddy and had not seen him in weeks....the other one starts crying even harder and said the last time my Daddy saw Mommy he hit her and I don't see Daddy any more

I just think it is sad that a little girl proudly presenting her Daddy to her friends would cause tears It is sad when my DD has to feel strange about having a Dad who lives with us and loves her more than anything.

Jen

That is soo sad!!! I think its good these litte girls see a daddy who is involved and that are lovign etc!!! That is soocute that she wants to show off daddy!!! my girls are the same way!!! It shows what a good daddy they have!!! and prayers for the little ones that got soosad!!!

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How sad I guess that's one of those things that is going to cause hurt, because your DD sounds like she loves and is proud of her Daddy, and that is a GOOD thing.

What a crazy world we live in....

It is sad. I have my DH walk our daughter to school at least once a week so she can have special time just with her Dad. It is only a 5 minute walk and a few minutes waiting for the classroom door to open but it is their special time without me, her sister or the dogs trying to cut in on their time. My husband said it was a you know you live in the city when moment....but I told him that this is becoming the norm with single parent families and divorced families very few kids have a Dad in the home now regardless of where you live

Jen

Oh, how sad to hear about her classmates crying! It does seem like the traditional two parent household is become less and less of the norm. I don't knock any family situation, but something is wrong when little ones cry over their dads.

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That is so so sad.... I just got my son's class list last week and 4 of the 15 only have their mom's names listed. I have a feeling they might be from single parent homes. (I know 2 of them are) It just bothered me a bit. I guess sometimes you just assume everyone is the same as us. (I know they are not) It is amazing how lucky we are to provide our children with the oppurtunity to grow up in a 2 parent household.

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It is a touchy subject here because of deployments, too. Our schools are constantly dealing with those issues.

Still a lot better than daddy hit mommy though. That is so sad. . .

I know that broke my heart But we do have a home in our neighborhood that looks like it is one big house but it is split into 3 apartments with 2 of the entrances in the rear and 1 apartment over the garage. It is a transitional apartment for an abuse shelter. They allow ladies who go take so many steps to live there for a year and pull their life together and save to move on. My one neighbor told me about it and I had no idea...but he wanted me to know so there would be an extra pair of eyes on the place...the little girl probably lives there.

Jen

It's a very sensitive situation nowadays. I try to be very careful about what I say. I was eating lunch with my dd at school one day and something came up about daddies. I made a comment about my dd's daddy (my dh) and a little girl looked at me and said "I don't have a daddy."

There was a little girl in dd's class last year who had both of her parents in prison!! I have no idea what crime they committed, but I've always felt sorry for that poor little girl.

There is a little boy in my son's K class (his sister is in my older son's 2nd grade class) who is being raised by his grandparents. I know them from the sister and they are super nice.

Nana told me recently about why they are raising the kids - 3 in total. Her son (the father) died suddenly in an at work accident. The mother did not want them (they were divorced). So, having just retired four years ago, they are now raising three kids. The youngest was 18 months at the time so he doesn't remember, but the older two are in counseling due to abandonment issues.

There are a lot of sad stories out there.