Fathers play a key role in the psychological development of their daughters.  This relationship has an impact on a girl’s self-esteem, how she views men, her future relationships with them, and her overall mental state.

When fathers show love to their daughters and accept them as they are, it helps foster a positive sense of self in the female. On the contrary, negligent fathers can send their daughters down a dark path of depression, substance abuse and psychological problems.

With that being said do you think that having a loving “step-father” or father figure, in a woman’s life can replace the absence of her biological father?  I can see and understand how the LOVE is there but isn’t there still a brokenness that is created from not having that biological father.  I’m sure having a loving father figure in her life mends some of her brokenness , and some women will say by having that they didn’t miss not having their biological father, but do you think it resolves all of the psychological damage she may have incurred?

Absent Dad