What's worse, growing up "Fatherless" or having a bad Father?

[New Username]

Inspired by a comment in the Kent TV
thread

Seems like his mother passed away when he was young, and his father basically instilled his low self-esteem and inferiority complex into him. In many of his videos he talks about how his father told him that black women wouldn't like him.

Being raised by a bad father more harmful than not having a father, yes or no?

Discuss

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

I would say having a bad father is worse than an absentee father.

 

[cheek100]

Atleast with a bad father u know what Not to do by example

 

[1 other person]

Depends what you mean by 'bad'. There are extreme cases. In the most extreme cases, having an absentee father is better. It really shouldn't even be a debate

 

[Stuntone]

No dad is all bad. Fatherlessness is horrible

 

[1 other person]

Police: Dad kills kids, wife in gruesome Hawaii triple murder

 

[Ashley Banks]

Police: Dad kills kids, wife in gruesome Hawaii triple murder

NO, having no father is worse!!!!

 

[New Username]

Police: Dad kills kids, wife in gruesome Hawaii triple murder

Inderesting

 

[kuts]

With a bad father you get a bad example that's psychologically hard to overcome, but it typically leads to a rejection of the parent and a partial rejection of yourself.

Having no father might lead to recklessness, but you're still your own man as you don't associate men with any sort of heightened importance imo since you didn't grow up with the one that sired you.

 

[marcuz]

i've always believed the absent parent has far less impact on a child, than the parent who's there every day.

 

[marcuz]

although with that particular youtuber, the question should be is it worse to grow up motherless or fatherless.

 

[Treblemaka]

Personal experience says having an absentee father is much better than having a $hitty one.

 

[Uncle Kingpin]

My father was mostly not in my life, and he was a bad father, like hbo documentary on bad fathers bad, the limited time he was. I was better off without him at all. But most people arent good or bad, they are somewhere in between, and knowing both the people who made you is important for your knowledge of self. So it should always be in the best interest of the child to have both parents involved....but no child should be around an ustable or abusive parent.

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

Fatherless

 

[wickedsm]

Good question op.