” (unless the mother is a strong woman).”
It really doesn’t matter how strong the woman is, a boy needs a father figure too. I sat next to a wonderful black guy at work. He had two children by a woman who had multiple children by different men. She was making a living out of having fatherless children. I overheard him telling one of his friends that his daughter was pregnant at fourteen by a guy who had run off to New York and his son was in trouble with the law. You could hear the frustration in his voice as he said, “What the hell kind of example do they have to follow? Her sisters are either pregnant of have delivered and his brothers are all in juvy.”
One of the most important decisions you make in life is choosing who’s going to be the mother(or father) of your children.
If you choose poorly, you are setting yourself up for a lifetime of pain.