Erik feels bad when his friend, Jennifer, taunts, “You don’t have a daddy.” “Where’s my daddy? Do I have a daddy?” he asks his mother. Erik’s mother explains that he, like all children, has a daddy, but that she and his father never married. His father went away soon after Erik was born, she says, adding “The important thing is I’m here for you.”
In the special section for single parents, young single parents and several professionals discuss such critical issues as the never-married parent and the totally absent father.