![]() My earliest memory of realising something was wrong in my family was watching Atticus Finch father his children, especially Scout, in the film To Kill A Mocking Bird. ![]() Get that job wrong, as so many do, as they have not inherited a good image or through addiction or sheer bloody mindedness! But the father is the most influential since he demonstrates to boys how/how not to be a man, and to girls, what a man is/should be like. Yes, a patriarchal society compounds these primal relationships. They shape us in the first 5 years, and as the saying goes, 'show me the child and I'll show you the man" (or woman!). They shape us in the first 5 years, and as the …more Fathers & mothers are the defining relationships in our lives. ![]() Karen Purcell Fathers & mothers are the defining relationships in our lives. ![]()
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