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My mother was left to bring up my brother and myself when my father died suddenly AND completely unexpectedly. Among the many challenges she faced were a couple that were legal (this was the sixties) to do with loans and debts. There was also no real culture of being “family friendly”. She found work and brought us up. It was only in later life I realised we’d been dirt poor. Dad was always a real person to us boys, as she often commented on him, and what he’d make of our antics. So though I had few memories of him he was part of my life. She brought up two sons.
From her I learned the importance of equal rights, so that even if you don’t choose a life, you don’t get hassle in doing the right thing. In the sixties and seventies this meant hard choices, and things are better now. When I grew up, being without a father was unusual, a misfortune, not a right or choice. Truly single parents – male or female – deserve our support. Choosing that, and imagining the child won’t think about their father? Well, that is stupid and damaging. Getting that choice on the cheap from the NHS, which can’t treat older people well and with dignity, is a travesty.
Justice for Men & Boys 
My mother was left to bring up my brother and myself when my father died suddenly AND completely unexpectedly. Among the many challenges she faced were a couple that were legal (this was the sixties) to do with loans and debts. There was also no real culture of being “family friendly”. She found work and brought us up. It was only in later life I realised we’d been dirt poor. Dad was always a real person to us boys, as she often commented on him, and what he’d make of our antics. So though I had few memories of him he was part of my life. She brought up two sons.
From her I learned the importance of equal rights, so that even if you don’t choose a life, you don’t get hassle in doing the right thing. In the sixties and seventies this meant hard choices, and things are better now. When I grew up, being without a father was unusual, a misfortune, not a right or choice. Truly single parents – male or female – deserve our support. Choosing that, and imagining the child won’t think about their father? Well, that is stupid and damaging. Getting that choice on the cheap from the NHS, which can’t treat older people well and with dignity, is a travesty.
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