Bridges: Reuniting Daughters & Daddies

It has been said that a man never knows what love is until he has a daughter. Of all the bonds between family members, those between fathers and daughters are often the closest. At the same time, they can also be the most tenuous.

In her book Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? Jonetta Rose Barras asserts that many women suffer from what she calls "Fatherless Woman Syndrome," and that it often stays with women their whole lives. She believes that while the effect of fatherlessness on boys receives more attention, fatherlessness has a devastating impact on girls, too.

In her newly released book Bridges: Reuniting Daughters & Daddies, Barras uses illustrations pulled from the lives of real women and their fathers to help point the way to reconciliation between fathers and their daughters.

Barras joined Glenn on His Side with Glenn Sacks on June 12, 2005.

To learn more, see:

• Jonetta Rose Barras' Bridges: Reuniting Daughters & Daddies

• Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women (review by Paul Jimenez)

• What people are saying about Bridges: Reuniting Daughters and Daddies

• Fathers outraged over commercial mocking father in front of daughter--see Glenn's column Why I Launched the Campaign Against Verizon's Anti-Father Ad (Pasadena Star-News & Affiliated Papers, Daily Breeze [Los Angeles], 11/19/04) and His Side Campaign Against Anti-Father Verizon Commercial.

• Kathleen Parker's Undoing the damage of male-bashing, one daughter at a time (3/2/05).

• His Side: Why Girls Need Fathers (5/23/04)

• Dr. Linda Nielsen's Embracing Your Father: How to Build the Relationship You Always Wanted with Your Dad. Read Excerpts from Embracing Your Father.

• Dr. Linda Nielsen's  Fathers &  Daughters--Why a Course for College Students? (College Student Journal)