>i>I will be 72 soon and I have never heard anyone refer to their dad as father. It was always Dad, Pops, Pa, etc. I called my dad Pa since that is what my oldest nephew called him. I am 2 years older than he. Even my great granddaughters refer to him as Pa. They were born years after his death but we all talk about my parents. They have seen pictures of them, too. p> 72, wow, that's old!!!!!I turned 77 on Jan.2 I've always thought, as does almost everyone else, that everybody on Earth has a father and a mother.....if there is a doubt, the court doesn't take a dna sample and declare the man to be the daddy of the child....he is the Father....Father is the physical relationship as is mother, daddy is a very special, personal, and meaningful relationship....surpassing that of father.
Everyone has a father, unfortunately, not everyone has a daddy.
My brother and I always called our father, "Father." I never called him Dad or Pops or Pa or anything of that sort. Same as our mother, whom we called "Mother."
Don't know why. No reason why. It was just our way.
Everyone has a father, unfortunately, not everyone has a daddy. And we silly taxpayers put up with subsidizing more and more of them.
And then we wonder why our culture(s) are a mess!