ot the type that feels they need a boyfriend all of the time. They are more apt to stay single until the guy comes along that they will marry. However girls that did not have a father while growing up can be recognized by being a girl that feels she needs a boyfriend or some other male figure in her life. They try to fill the void of the father with another man. A daughter that enjoys a good relationship with her father will look for someone with the characteristics of her father when she is ready to get married. “ She will look to marry a man with the same positive, tender characteristics she enjoyed with her father. Farrar,213" Here Farrar reinforces that point. An old saying says this: a daughter always marries her father. This is true in that she does not marry her father but she marries a man the shares the same features as her father. In his book Father: The Figure and The Force. Christopher Anderson says that little girls value their father’s opinion more than anyone else’s. “Clearly, the opinion any girl values most is her father’s. Anderson, 75" This statement is true on so many levels. One such level is when a girl begins thinking about getting married if her relationship with her father was positive one then she will ask her father what he thinks of her future husband. Finally another level is when a daughter has children she will ask for her father’s opinion on certain aspects of raising her children. Fathers and their sonsFathers have big impact on their sons as they grow up as well. When a boy begins growing into a man the one person from he should receive information from on sex should be his father. Once a boy hits puberty his body begins to change in many different ways. Most of these changes are specific to males only therefore a young man needs to feel that he can talk to his father about these things because it is not something he wants to talk to his mother about. Fa...
