Like You Do
Nate Watson was 16 when he became a father. He decided not to take the easy—and usual—way out:
‘Watson felt too young to be a father. But he saw plenty of young men around his neighborhood and in school who had children but didn’t care for them. Being that sort of “deadbeat dad?—a term that spews from Watson’s mouth with disdain—was the last thing he wanted to be.
…“It was like I’d won the lottery,? Watson, now 18, said of his first days as a father. “You just can’t stop smiling. It was a responsibility I needed to take care of. I had to make sure, over everything there is, I have to be there for my daughter.?
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Quad-City Times
As encouraging as this story is, it’s also a shame that fathers have done so poorly that we’re praising men for doing what they’re supposed to. Of course, a sixteen-year-old young man out-manning someone ten years older is certainly something to celebrate.
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