The Father You Get And the Ones You Make, Believe In, and Become【電子書籍】[ Patton Dodd ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In a world of imperfect-at-best and bad-at-worst dads, what is the ideal of fatherhood we aspire to? Why does this ideal exist?＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞What is it about fathers and father figures that looms so large in the lives of so many? So wonders Patton Dodd in this intimate reflection and memoir in which he wrestles with a dad-sized hole, the gap between the father he yearned to have and the father he gotーan absent-while-present alcoholic whose unreliability caused chaos for everyone around him.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This struggle with the father he was given led to a variety of substituted: fathers he created, from an imaginary "Papa Friend" to male mentors he turned into father figures. Then there's the father he believed in, a Heavenly Father, made present by the steadfast and stubborn faith of his earthly mother. And finally, there is the father Dodd became when he had his own children, an experience that led him to track down the source and mystery of the father he got.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Throughou．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る