Fatherlessness is a Form of Trauma

Arah Iloabugichukwu
9 min readJan 7, 2021

Fatherlessness is not a generational curse, but it might be a psychological one.

I hate to say it, but my brothers are bad dads, and by bad, I mean perpetually absent from the lives of their children. Granted, I love both my brothers dearly. I was even idolizing them at one point in my adolescence, which led me to make a couple of questionable decisions of my own. But in the clarity of my adulthood…

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