Book excerpt: Families need a mother and a father for good mental health development. When one parent is missing, a child often does not get what they need to emotionally grow or feel helped. As young boys grow into young men, they look towards their father or a male role model to give them guidance. Mothers cannot always give a young man what is needed to grow into a man. Brandon had been in school for three years and thought his classmates were being dropped off at school by their moms and big brothers. While in second grade, Brandon finds out that his classmate's dad is the man that drops him off at school and not his big brother. Brandon tells his classmate that he does not have a dad. He goes home and confronts mom about where his dad is.