Why is it sometimes ok for dads to be gone so much?

[RedHeadGal]

Originally Posted by Surfah

I don't understand the issue here. I was one of these kids who had a federal government employee father and bishop. I never had issues with it or felt neglected as a youth. Maybe my siblings did as I was the eldest. I don't know that your suggestion of cooperative parenting is better. And what is cooperative parenting? Both parents working so one doesn't work as often as the other. This still doesn't alleviate the time a calling such as bishop requires either.

In my household my father was still very much a parent and went to great lengths to be there for us even when his work and calling required much of him. Maybe I was just fortunate.

I told you the kind of hours he works. He leaves before the kids get up and gets home after they are asleep(and doesn't always even go home) 6 days a week (and on the 7th, of course, is at church). The fact that it's a gov job means he can't make much $$. It's not possible in a gov job, though he has a prestigious position.

Cooperative parenting is where both parents care for and nurture their children. This concept is NOT embraced by the LDS culture at large and only slightly poked at by the larger society.