There's a steep learning curve with parenting.

13
Everyone expects so much from me as a new father and I feel like I can't get ahead at all and I ask for help and get criticized. I feel like a bad dad because I can't stay above.

From:
Missouri

Do you stay or do you go?

14
I love my son, but I just cannot be with his mother anymore. I feel like he's going to hate me and think I'm a bad dad if I leave...I don't know what to do.

From:
New Jersey

Finances are tough.

15
I'm a 22 year old dad and when I get any money I wanna buy the nicest thing for my little family but then never have money to go out or fill the cabinets with food I feel like a bad dad.

From:
Western Wyoming Community College

You're doing everything you can.

16
My daughter told me that while I was deployed, she cried every night because she thinks her mom doesn't love her.

I feel like a bad father because I'm not trying my hardest to get custody...

From:
Keizer

You want to do better but...

17
My father was never there for me and now I feel like I am a bad father to my children. I want to be everything to them but I just don't know how...

From:
Skwierzyna, Lubuskie, PL

Other people aren't helping.

18
My wife has postpartum depression and I feel like she uses it as an excuse to scream at me all the time. She makes me feel like a bad father

From:
Somewhere

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