Parents play an important role in the lives of children, especially the father. The father's role is to take care of the home, provide for the family, and show love and care for the family or child. Some children feel useless, they feel they have to take care of the family (become the father figure). But there are some children who strive to be the best they can to prove that they have made it without their father. “My dad wasn't there for me,” said Montray Norris, 30, a large African-American man with a pale face and handsome edge and five-o'clock shadow, stopping to coo at his now 32-month-old baby. “There's nothing in the world that's going to stop me from being there for my little man.” One-third of American children grow up, as Montray did, without a living father, the U.S. Bureau of Statistics said. Over the past 50 years, the rate of children living with two married people has dropped 22 points. Over the same period, the number of children destined for unmarried mothers jumped from 5% to 40%. essential improvements in the physical, emotional and behavioral well-being of the child. In the meantime, however, research shows that it is not enough to have just a male figure at home. Some sociologists have called the father's absence "the most pressing problem facing America today." Alarmed by the growing confirmation of the criticality of parenting, President Barack Obama, raised by a single parent, forcefully implored fathers to venture out during his presidency.Pg. 2"From many points of view, I arrived at... middle of paper age, but his uncle and mother helped him get on the path to becoming a successful man. Khaila explained that he had never had a different father figure than her grandfather. She knew who her father was and her father knew who she was, the father just decided not to be in her life she has never given up on herself. She states that: “The fact that my father isn't in my life, pushes me to be the best I can and to grow up to be someone I can't wait until I can say I have it. made without his love and care bad ones begin. Some children strive and strive to be someone, without their fathers.