“If you know how it feels to not have your father around as a child; you shouldn’t want your child to share that same feeling. As a child, my father was never at football games, graduations, piano recitals, school plays, birthday parties, baptisms, my first solo in the choir or any event I sang at. I promised myself that I would NEVER make my child feel the pain that I felt when looking into an audience or stands and not seeing my father. Let’s not make the excuse “She won’t let me see him/her” or “I don’t think it’s mine”. There are laws that have been put into place for…