Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love, as there are few parents who are under obligations to their children, and we all are obliged to our parents’ lives, a sick child is always the mother’s property, her own feelings generally make it so. Your father, of course may spare you, if you mother can. He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eyes over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who see his heir in another man’s child, sees the full stop at the end of the sentence. The family is a survival of the principle which is more logically embodied in the compound person—and the compound person is a form of life which has been found incompatible with high development. I would do with the family among mankind what nature has done with the compound human and confine it to the lower and less progressive races. Certainly there is no inherent love for the family system on the part of nature herself.

It hath been many an honest man’s hap to pass for the father of children he never begot, which goes to show that men do love children. There could not be a father in the World, who could sell his child’s virtue. Lately, I have been seeing a lot more father’s spending time with their babies, toddlers, children, teens and adult sons and daughters. This brings joy to my heart, as not everyone can have the option to spend time with their dad. In the past, care of the children was seen as a women’s responsibility. However, more and more men want to have active parts in their child’s lives. They want to let their children know they are there for them, more than just financially, they are there to support them mentally, physically and emotionally, which will make the family stronger, as a unit and take some of the pressure off of the mothers. Fathers are far more than just a second adult in the house. Children with involved, caring parents in their lives have better educational outcomes. Not everyone has the luxury of having a dad, so make the best of the mother or other figures in your life. Its times of happiness and joy or in times of trouble, sorrow, fanatics cling to their families like gold.