by David Bowman, LMFT | Nov 1, 2025 | Family, Father Figures, Featured, Men's Issues, Relationships
In Finding our Fathers, Sam Osherson cites a broad study indicating that only 17 percent of American men had a positive relationship with their fathers. In most cases the father was dead, divorced and missing, chemically impaired, or emotionally absent. If this...
by David Bowman, LMFT | Oct 9, 2018 | Family, Featured, LGBT, Men's Issues
In an earlier article, I introduced the subject of “daddy issues,” that is, problems faced by sons who either have troubled relationships with their fathers or whose fathers were largely absent during their childhood, either physically or emotionally. In Absent...