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- dzsimbo, on 06/19/2009, -7/+97i miss my dad
- yocouchdigga, on 06/20/2009, -5/+67I have two dads, does that make me more human than a human?
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -9/+55Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
- inactive, on 06/20/2009, -1/+45If those automatic doors at stores open for you, then you are indeed a human.
- paker, on 06/20/2009, -4/+46So much for the idea that men aren't needed in this world. Some women seem to think all that's needed is a test tube and a mother.
- skate3214, on 06/20/2009, -0/+39You know what'd be funny, if IDigDiggingDigg was evilesttoasts dad.
- evilesttoast, on 06/20/2009, -2/+38My dad is the reason why I am who I am today. He also stalks my Digg account (he introduced me to it), so when you read this dad, I love you. Happy Fathers Day!
- Renian, on 06/20/2009, -3/+37It makes you superhuman.
- inactive, on 06/19/2009, -4/+35Actually, in many African populations, it's not unusual for fathers to have little to no interaction with their children. Because there is so much promiscuity and so much uncertainty about parenthood, men tend to invest more in the children of their sisters than in children they believe to be their own.
- DirtyVicar, on 06/20/2009, -0/+30In divorces, courts award the mother sole custody 45 percent of the time, compared to 11 percent for the father. It would be nice to see Americans pay a bit more respect to what the father contributes to parenting. Persuading people to buy a gift for Dad every June is about all the respect fathers really get, on average.
- helipilot, on 06/20/2009, -1/+28My Dad can beat up your Dad.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/20/2009, -1/+28that we love Fight Club.
- Maxjan, on 06/20/2009, -4/+28In your face women!!
- boulder555, on 06/19/2009, -1/+24Kids also learn from fathers during a unique form of papa play. Unlike mothers, fathers tend to roughhouse with their children.
"They rile them up, almost to the point that they are going to snap, and then calm them down," Geary said.
This pattern teaches kids to control their emotions — a trait that garners them popularity among superiors and peers, he said. - petefic, on 06/20/2009, -8/+31But I have two lesbian parents! Am I not human?!?!?!
- Gogogo111, on 06/20/2009, -1/+24My father was always pretty hard on me. He and I just never really bonded, however he did passively teach me things I shall always remember.
1)Think before you speak. Always.
2)Learn to calm the ***** down. He was always so serious and angry. Because of this, I tried to be the opposite. Quiet, laid back, and calm. It takes a lot to get me angry. - mrgeekguy, on 06/20/2009, -2/+23Yes, Mr. Zombie, it does.
- brutedog, on 06/20/2009, -2/+23The one wearing flannel and combat boots is your dad.
- kaosethema, on 06/20/2009, -1/+21nothing new.
i grew up without a dad. life as a teen was pretty ***** up for me.
now, as a father, i am committed to raising my daughter.
she will not live my life. - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -1/+20The anthropologist Patricia Draper described the unique pattern of African marriage, mating, and family organization (which predates the colonial period) in a fascinating paper titled "African Marriage Systems: Perspectives from Evolutionary Ecology" in the journal Ethology and Sociobiology.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? ...
Excerpt:
in much of Africa, not only among country people but among urban populations as well, there persists high fertility and a pattern of parental investment in which both mothers and fathers invest, by Western standards, relatively little in each offspring and pursue a pattern of delegated parental responsibility. Coupled with low investment parenting is a mating pattern that permits early sexual activity, loose economic and emotional ties between spouses, and in many cases the expectation on the part of both spouses that the marriage will end in divorce or separation, followed by the formation of another union. Polygyny, still widespread in Africa, inhibits high male parental investment in children for several reasons.
There is a common practice in which the rearing of children is shared by many kindred of a child and in which the biological parents are not the primary caretakers of each child. This system is referred to as “fostering” or “borrowing” or “lending” of children. - inactive, on 06/20/2009, -0/+19Hallmark Inc. says Happy Father's Day!
- NaziHatinChimp, on 06/20/2009, -5/+22Sounds like a good reason why Africa sucks.
- yocouchdigga, on 06/20/2009, -1/+16COOL STORY BRO
- superrobot92, on 06/20/2009, -2/+17I'm a bastard child.
._. - pinchduck, on 06/20/2009, -0/+15Good on you for having the self-awareness to notice his negative traits and rise above. The world would be a better place if more people had those qualities.
- EddiePotato, on 06/20/2009, -1/+14That was pretty good. You should have written the article.
But seriously - this might have something to do with why single moms and violence are both most prevalent in the same areas of cities. The boys don't learn the acceptable limits of rough play. - inactive, on 06/19/2009, -2/+15This is where the African proverb for Hillary Clinton's book "It Takes a Village to Raise a Child" comes from. Hillary did not say "it takes a family" to raise a child. Native American and African societies did not elevate and legitimize the nuclear family because fatherhood was often indeterminate. Rather, children were raised in a communal environment and women were shared among the men of the community. Typically this produced a low parental investment in the success of the offspring.
Osama Bin Laden was raised in a similar environment, but in a polygamous one where one wealthy male has many wives and concubines. He was one of more than forty children raised by the ten wives of the senior Bin Laden.
Do a bit of googling for "Kevin MacDonald"+"reproductive strategies" and a lot of interesting reading on this topic will appear. - xenuxenuts, on 06/20/2009, -1/+14"You are Dad is Chuck Norris" makes absolutely no sense.
- diggduggjoe, on 06/20/2009, -2/+14As horrible as that sounds, it may be quite true. If, you do not give a ***** about your kids, why build a civilization for them.
That is why I say we must stop interfering with evolution. If, Africa has a successful model for life, it will survive. The sooner we resolve this the better. If, all of Africa dies due to promiscuity and the failure to create any social institutions of note, then so be it. - SwiftKick34, on 06/20/2009, -2/+14Happy Father's Day
- xenuxenuts, on 06/20/2009, -0/+11but my dad owns a gun.
- matticusf1nch, on 06/20/2009, -0/+11I'm a thirty year old boy, how am I supposed to get married?
- ThanatosST, on 06/20/2009, -0/+11Good for you man. We need more people to commit to actually raising their kids, father or mother.
- Amadeus2490, on 06/20/2009, -0/+10You're supposed to, you dumb *****!
- Bloodweaver, on 06/20/2009, -0/+10Just pay your child support and shut up!
- TheCamino, on 06/20/2009, -0/+9
"not to mention you white bastards pretty much looted the whole continent...."
Hey, but why stop there! The current African presidents are doing an even better job of looting the whole continent.
So let's recap Africa, back then, and now today:
OLD AFRICA: A white controlled, barely functioning, dangerous, racist hellhole.
NEW AFRICA: A native controlled, non-functioning, dangerous, racist hellhole.
Not a big difference there.
In my choices between apartheid and child soldiers, I choose NONE OF THE ABOVE.
But hey, it's all whitey's fault, even though the blacks, now in charge, are just absolutely terrible too.
Oh, and slavery, in America, which ended over a hundred and thirty years ago, is the cause of why that kid robbed a convenience store.
- barwe, on 06/20/2009, -2/+11Pics or it didn't happen
- Nubli, on 06/20/2009, -0/+9Come back after you learn to use words properly.
- Leo21k, on 06/19/2009, -6/+15Most of people Ive met who grew up without fathers sure do act like animals.
- inactive, on 06/20/2009, -8/+16That god should come for an awkward visit every once in a while, try to get back with mom, then give us a ***** gift and leave, or else he is a deadbeat.
- icstereotypes, on 06/20/2009, -0/+8My daddy once caught a bullet with his bare hand.
- doleboy, on 06/20/2009, -0/+8...for they provide us with half of our genetic information.
- chlyon, on 06/20/2009, -0/+8As i surspected most diggers arent human
- Bloodwine, on 06/20/2009, -1/+9Does this mean that fathers can use switches on their kids again? Gen Y is a lost cause, but it's not too late to save Gen Z.
BRING BACK SWITCHES, BITCHES!! - pstroll, on 06/20/2009, -0/+8"I take care of my kids!"
- inactive, on 06/20/2009, -1/+8father's day is the 21st!!!
- ftc08, on 06/20/2009, -0/+7Hence, Octomom.
- soogy, on 06/20/2009, -0/+7Yes it does. His first name is You, his middle name is Are, and his last name is Dad, but his friends and associates abbreviate it to You're Dad.
So, in essence, what mrgeekguy is trying to tell us is that this fellow, who goes by the name You Are Dad, is in fact Chuck Norris, or perhaps one of his alternate versions from another timeline. - TheKillDoctor, on 06/20/2009, -1/+8make a lonely girl pregnant.
- itdood, on 06/20/2009, -0/+7I had to show my wife this part of the article. She's always on me for doing this to the kids, and I'm the biggest instigator. I get them all wound up when I play with them, and when I think someone is about to get hurt I calm things down. Here I thought I was being a bad Dad.
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