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I am a mother at 21 with a little boy called Dylan aged two years. He has never met his father and I try and contact him to acknowledge he has a son. Right from the start he has never believed he is the father. I have become interested by the growing rate of absence fathers and as a 3rd year photography student at the university of portsmouth I would like to raise awareness to this problem. It would be fantastic if I could meet some mothers with the same situation as me and share there experiences as a single mum.
It would be great to get a photograph of your family in your natural environment and talk about your status as a parent. I can then develop the pictures and send them back to you on which you could have as a family portrait free of charge!
Hi Meggie and Eileen,
I dont think I want to be in the project, as I do not think my son would want to be hotographed, but both your posts, touched me a lot. My son's father lost interest in fatherhood whilst I was pregnant. I probably had a part in it, as in choosing a very inappropriate man. However as the years went by, he saw my son less and less, maybe yearly. Paid some money at Christmas and Birthdays £30 into his bank account and that was it. Then on October 10th 2008, I got a call to say he had died in a motorbike crash! For my boy, it was confusing, he said he didnt know him, so it did not effect him. I felt it was like a loss on top of the loss of him not being there for him before. We went to his funeral, where I met 3 other mothers, with his children, where he had not been there for them either. (We were joking a bit, thinking that another woman would burt through the church doors with a string of offspring!) I agree, it is so sad and devastating, that men can walk away so easily. It makes me think of that song 'to know him, is to love him',I do not believe he got to know my son, that's why he was not there for him. wishing you all the best x
Hello to both eileen and Ella
Both your stories have so much sadness in them. Would you feel able to come on the boards and get some support from other members?
hi meggie my son has never seen his father he is now 22 yrs old.it has brought great pain and sadness to us over the yrs.i feel its to easy for dads to walk away from their responsibilities.it was his choice not to be involved he had other children from his first marriage which he didnt see either.my son phoned him when he was a teenagner wanting to meet him he said no....such pain and rejection he felt...if i can help you i will,not sure if my son will hes very angry about it still. eileen