Growing up my brothers teased me as brothers often do. The story goes that when he found out I was to be a girl he joked, “Send her back!” What’s more, due to complications during my birth I was told he left the hospital. Because of that teasing, I never felt a connection with my dad.  → Read More

I have been parenting alone for eight years. I have also represented children in custody and post-divorce decree matters in domestic relations court. I know from both personal and professional experience that Father’s Day can evoke a range of emotions in both single mothers and their children.  → Read More

This Father’s Day will mark 35 years without my father. He died in 1979, just two weeks shy of my fifth birthday. My mother remarried a few years later; however, Father’s Day still remains a difficult holiday.  → Read More