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Article: Daughters Need Fathers Too.
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- The American Enterprise
- Article date:
- September 1, 1999
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We spend so much time worrying about fathers and sons that we often forget about daughters' need for fathers. On the personal level, daughters whose fathers are physically or emotionally absent are much likelier to develop serious problems with other men in their lives. "It is fathers far more than mothers who determine what it means to be a girl and how comfortable she is or is not in her own sexual sin," writes Victoria Secunda, author of Women and Their Fathers.
One of the most important ways men affirm the femininity of their daughters is by treating their wives with honor, respect, and tenderness. Parents who cannot bear being in one another's presence ...