Father’s Day is here, and some Black women don’t even have a daddy to celebrate. Some of us have a “sperm donor” to fill the spot during the holiday, but that’s all he is for some us, a space filler. And then there are those of us who have a great dad … Celebrate your good, active and loving daddy, girl, but we’re not going to focus on your kind right now.
Ladies who do not have a relationship with your father, ask yourself this question: How would my life be different, if I did have a father figure in my world?

Much has been written about the pervasiveness of absent fathers in the Black community; publications like Essence, Newsweek, Jet, and Ebony have featured articles questioning and decrying the lack of fathers present in Black homes.
In fact, according to a Newsweek article, roughly 50 percent of Black children are living in fatherless homes. Reasons cited range from Black women being too career hungry to Black men’s high incarceration rates.