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Father Absence

                           Father Absence. Digital art created on canvas. Afrika Abney As an adult and consultant, Ms. Afrika Abney strongly believes the most painful, dreadful and difficult experience to face is growing up without a father in the home. Her father divorced her mother at an extremely early age and while Ms. Abney was a student at NationHouse. When she was a student at NationHouse from 1978-1991, Ms. Abney wondered why many of the men had multiple wives. She never understood that philosophy. This concept to her leaves girls confused. Furthermore, it makes them experience forms of neglect, or other issues because they are essentially sharing their father with other women. Those women may or may not become pregnant. She had encountered many of the symptoms that revolve around father absence at the age of 5. Ms. Abney believes that the problem now with today's society is t...