We forget that for children the world is a mysterious and scary place best explained by parents, familiar flesh-and-blood guides who are knowledgeable and loving. Unfortunately, Americans seem to have lost the capacity to see the world through the eyes of a child. But when he learned of his father’s death years later, he said: “I prayed to God for his soul, and I thanked my father for all he had given me as a child-and as a slave.” Every Child Has A FatherĪmericans ought to contemplate this story in order to regain an appreciation of what fathers are meant to do for their children: to guard, to guide, to nurture, and to love. In seven years they molded me into the man I am today.” And they sustained him, even from the grave.įrancis’s father was killed by raiders, although Francis didn’t know this as a child. Gratitude for the gift of fatherhood is a running theme in Bok’s narrative, Escape from Slavery, which he dedicates to many, but “especially for my father, who always told me I would do something important in life.” In the end, he says “I would be nothing without my parents, Bol Buk Dal and Adut Al Akok. Fatherhood is an extraordinary gift to any child.
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