their father. single mothers are no longer an unusual phenomenon while a father devoting himself to his children is a rare occurrence for many. however in russia there are thousands of single fathers just like a lot of. money things that they could with. us. so that the table now boys. no breakfast in this family can start without saying grace roman became a believer after a serious illness that left him has brett from death in tries to instill his faith in his children. you're going to do when i took the kids to my place i simply did not know what to do i was running around like a madman i couldn't work twenty four hours at the parking lot. so i quit my job and

started looking for other means of income i took up all kinds of jobs that i came across. the court to strip the mother of her parental rights concerning these boys some time ago. she's always drinking. she is not my mother anymore. and she abandoned us when i took the kids she didn't do anything at all for six months she didn't call or ask after us. i spoke to her relatives about her reaction they told me she felt ok as she had more time to go out it would ring which was thought there are i am lucky that. the children don't miss their mother but they want to have one in other words they don't miss a specific person whom the mob want

a mother figure on talk of not the one who gave birth to them and abandoned them with them they just want to have a mum. already knows what a good mother should be like. she should come to my brother and me and kisses goodbye. telling us stories and hugging us so we can fall asleep. i mean. come on. two thousand kilometers east of moscow in the city of you katherine a group of single fathers have formed their own club. get together to discuss many important issues they want local authorities to give single fathers more support. to be able to speak at the government

level and defend our civil rights. problems however have no need for politics he's simply trying to get by with his adolescent daughter. who's already fourteen his youngest is ten over the most rebellious his twelve year old lisa. with the girls for the time being the main issue. that we see such families more and more often the most common reason is when a mother abandons her family most frequently because of her antisocial behavior namely alcoholism. the second reason is sadly due to the mother's death. third which may seem quite surprising is the freedom women now have in terms of their career prospects.

grapple with important issues kids learn to make paper cranes. when the cranes are tied to balloons the children rush into the street with their. how legal release are balloons into the stuff together with our cranes. that he was seeing. everyone sees the balloons fly off into the sky except for example pulls off he is completely blind when he told the single fathers club it was hard for me to believe him at first. leave me everywhere here it's impossible for me to walk on land

how can i and so busy. alexander stories would be similar to thousands of other single fathers if not for his eyes. a few years ago his wife left for another family shortly before the divorce the man lost his eyesight in a car accident he stayed alone with his three young daughters. says here papa. had first alexander's relatives helped him but the girls now he's learned to care for them by himself. eager to go to have lives five hundred kilometers south of moscow in the city of course many people that know him if you. come here it's the largest one

stop wait a minute wait don't dance. it wastes only four to five kilos and then yes we keep them for me so we can eat me while the kids are in school i go in concert grass. and they come home they first have a rest and then the also go and get some grass so there is enough in the evening and for the next morning you. are here comes our little lena. my old up alina i was school it was ok one margin is you get four out of five. what a good girl you are lena. lena is he goes youngest daughter she's only nine years old in total going to go to have has ten children two girls and eight boys his oldest already have families and homes of their own party but from the moment you step through the front door it's obvious that a large family lives in this house. the younger children usually help their older

sister in the kitchen to cook a dinner for such a big family takes a lot of time and effort. but often tells us about mom now and says that she was kind and beautiful and that she helped people that mama loved us so. in two thousand and five the gregorio were expecting the eleventh child. the pregnant woman was taken from maternity hospital but suddenly the family was shattered with terrible news the mother had committed suicide at the clinic. i started drinking i didn't go to the funeral they buried her with. her food then i stopped and i simply didn't know what to do. the woman has a responsibilities the man has. a sudden i had to attend to both of them

it was very. very difficult at the bourse. she might seem to keep. looking. a father cannot substitute a mother it's simply impossible woman is a woman and the man is a man there's nothing to add to it because the border is more caring more affectionate more delicate. by nature and we can't do anything about it when you want him when you cook. him it's very difficult for the children to live without their mother you know they need someone to kiss them.

this is a favorite story told by. the ivan the terrible use to climb this tower to see executions on the red square. conducting excursions around red square in moscow is more a hobby than a. joining of like says to a group on red square. this isn't a place where people get executed but rather where decrees issued by the czar were not. true. alexei raises three children alone living alongside of an eco in his apartment brothers our children and. there's also a dog a cat and a turtle look at this different life animal since i was a little girl we always had a lot of cats at home when my mother worked at a pet store i often spent time there after school i love animals very much. and her two brothers lost their mother to cancer. you know you call. me small me

bernie who was raised by her mother. as for anton he remembers his mother and the older he gets the more he thinks about her i can see it shows that when he sees his mom's picture he says it's mom and then asks why people die and the other day he asked me what's the purpose of life the boys are only six years old. alexei hired a nanny to help take care of the children she cooks for them and puts them to bad. it's been two and a half years since her telling me more what do you mean women think that men can't take care of their children they always want to show how to do it they come up to us in the street and wipe their noses it gets on my nerves really do they think i can't do it myself. another thing is that people tell me all the time that they feel sorry for me well ok thank you for this the face of the one day you simply find yourself all alone well fed you and you understand the have to do something

you're very likely to get yourself. plus you're under enormous stress that's. the same you explain enjoying the natural world together they visit the zoo. there's more of a way about thirty. illiterate to train no one because you want to ride the train. and this is the african elephant not to be confused with the asian elephant african elephants have big ears asian ones have smaller. place to look the child is climbing up there now it's a pickle mother would say what on earth are you doing climb down immediately the

police and firefighters will arrive but a father would say well it's good you're safe and sound it's good you haven't fallen down great and if a child falls down he will be happy. that's the main difference in the way men and women bring out children. this want. to believe please.

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. that's. i the man's a heart of his both his children to a skating rink his eldest son to nyla is already a good skater he even has help. i.

watch your step. you stay here i was going to use stuff we are fond of skating and it took the older one only a couple of weeks to learn how to skate decently. he doesn't slip he can make turns and knows how to stop. come on come on that was it just go to a quick stop. good job so i knew she was we have no contact with my ex-wife she's married to another man and has already given birth to a daughter she never calls us we really do she's lost all interest in the kids'. stuff we last saw her half a year ago lost the deal or some remembers his mother but the younger doesn't know what is up and couldn't understand why she was trying to hug him i thank you

down you go also did you have fun other sisters don't worry when you grow up billion you'll stick to it. thanks thank you none of the people i know pity me this look at they see nothing extraordinary about my situation after all single mothers are quite common so there's nothing unusual about a single father the more so that men are stronger than women. for him and sons have persuaded to him to. take them to see their mother even though that's not an easy thing to do. is to arrange to get together in the near future. alexander family is following its usual daily routine in the morning the head of the family and his older daughter go to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. although

the father is blind he has no difficulty cooking meals his daughter is by his side always ready to help. out some more flour. when i steer it sometimes it feels it's getting thicker on other occasions it's. if you feel resistance it means it's ready it's not just that flour. here's the milk. ok just a little bit of know. the truth sometimes i can see a glimmer of light but i don't see any lights most of the time but with the situation doesn't happen much i rather worry about the kids i want them to grow up to become decent people more room or more they also asked me questions about their mother i said without mincing words your mother does not need them she abandoned you and found another man that's all i told them. that's illegal and i come eat. of a group of oh i know who's who when i hear their voices i learned to recognise them

a long time ago well kircher. she wants to be a chef. for leno wants to be a veterinarian everything was a good remarkable liza is still in two minds she wants to be either a cook or a singer. we shall see how we work out. some mothers are just not worth mentioning at all. hours wanted to send us to an orphanage of all places but our father took us away from her. i'd say fathers are more concerned about their children. i feel happy because i have to go it's a joy to know that they're with me they help me to just have a bit of happiness is found in children they are my children.

before dawn breaks father of ten you go to their heads to the market place and course he takes care not to stock up on too much food even though he has so many children. i know for a fact that the kids will snatch up the best bits and leave the rest to rot then i'll have to give the leftovers to the dogs i don't want that sort of thing happening buying too much food is a bad idea. the market vendors are all familiar with eagle they know he has many children and offer him good discounts. i'd like some of those sausages the high girls hello how many do you want a full do not many today. is also a jar of mayonnaise and chocolate for the kids it's just. people help us and may god help them. will be in dire poverty were not for them.

like hello. when my wife died a moscow businessman bought a car for us. the outhouse has been built by a wealthy man from course i don't even know his name. but here from work a man also build the hole in the large bathroom the shower will be made later the toilet is in order and the floor is heated i've got no idea who that wealthy man is . also like to have the other floor put in order to make more room for the kids and the time being the place is a bit crowded. on the new york. the kids remember their mother thinks as a for all over the place. i simply can't afford to let another woman live here i haven't asked the kids about their attitude never even occurs to me that i might

share this home with another woman i want to with the previous because i want the children to grow up to become decent people i don't want anything artificial about them. i don't want them to cheat but to be honest in adult life the way they are now when i don't want them to tell false hoods or make wild promises showing you doing more. alexei some units of support london mosque becomes a playground for his kids and he's not particularly strict with them on such occasions he can devote his full attention to the children. and i'm firmly convinced that it's no use trying to shape your children the way they would like people with disability like you when they grow up therefore you'd better educate yourself that's my favorite saying. i've seen any number of parents devoting so much time and effort to raising their children in reality though the children

simply mimic their parents is that. if a child communicates with gentle people who are themselves outstanding individuals then the child will be like them. that the king is a great secret i'd like to disclose to all fathers is this teaching children is a very interesting thing as the government should especially if you achieve some results like if the child learns to read or write or imitate something that you do . as the bank you are to almost but it's over here or that it's just it's like organizing a business or getting a promotion or something like that it's really fascinating to realise that you can foster something and show that. your version that you'll. find a very important to make sure that kids have a grog view of the world is going to buy but you should be afraid of reaching out to other people with different languages or in other countries but yes if my little

son is trying to climb up a hill knowing full well he'd never make it and yet he keeps trying and reaches the top this is like going to paris it's like seeing the world from in a different light. whether men should allow a woman to live with the kids simply because they need a mother by their side is the beta book in my opinion. the man woman relationship is built on other for september we're going to put it plainly supposing i allow that woman to be with her kids they will grow up and go their separate ways but i'll have to stay on with that woman too i need that. very many children have grown up without the care of fathers and mothers but they're none the worse for that or. if. you remember sort of children i've come to see their mother who left them had their father a long time ago. she's brought along her daughter from her new

marriage. you go to school yes. you've brought up to be quite big. how are you doing yeah. how's life ok it was so quiet what did you want to ask her how are you know we're good. how are you i am ok your ears are frozen i hope when i said he was all smart boy. some people break up because of a clash of characters with us it was just that our temperaments may have been too much of the match we were really we were never given to each other. sometimes at night. i wake up and i start to cry because i remember

you. you need to ask your father to call me and have him bring you over to me. mom didn't want my children to share a home with another man and call him father. were most that's one of the reasons. at first it really pain me to know that they were going to be not with me but with him. but now not so much. who are the kids are better off with a man than with me it's really important that a man raises boys. when are you going to come to us again. to visit or to live with us to live. well i don't know about that. it's not up to us to decide we'll find out later we'll decide

but it's not. over so do you really want me to leave my husband and child and return to you. i see no reason for that near to. you if. she was your language kelly mcevers oh if you're going to kill someone i thought.

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