the other wes moore

How a boy life affected when raised without a father

Both Wes Moore's grew up without their fathers in their lives. Wes Moore's father was taken away from him at an early age due to illness. His father had acute epiglottitis. Until the death of Wes Moore he had a close relationship. While The Other Wes Moore's father choice to be absent from his child's life. In the book we read that he tried to see The Other Wes Moore one night, drunk and pound on his mother's door demanding to see Wes, but after not given access inside he vanished from Wes's life. Studies show that "children with fathers at home tend to do better in school, are less prone to depression and are more successful in relationships. Children from one-parent families achieve less and get into trouble more than children from two parent families."

Both children were forced to learn a lot at a young age and in a way became the men of their households, in their father's absences.

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Although because of the difference in their losses of their father's the affects differed. The death of a parent can really damage a child. At times it can change just about everything about the child its future, its personality, its beliefs, its fears, its cravings, and how the child perceives the world itself. Death can traumatize anyone, but it is even more traumatic for a 6 year old boy. In the case of the other Wes Moore that had the father that didn't choice not to take part in his child's life it differs in the affects. Another study showed that 1,197 fourth-grade students were observed researchers that concluded the children that grew up without t "greater levels of aggression in boys from mother-only households than from...