Happy Father's Day weekend to all you NON-DEADBEAT DAD's!

I would like to take the opportunity to wish all of you extraordinary, ever-present, loving fathers out there in the world a Happy Father's Day! It bothers me every year when I see commercials and cards celebrating fatherhood as if it is a given right. Apparently if you procreated and were blessed with a child you should be celebrated, well I think NOT! If you were up with midnight feedings, diaper changes, attended dance recitals and football games, helped your children with their homework, placed the graduation cap upon your baby's head at the tender age of 18, slipped the lucky penny in your daughter's bridal shoe and proceeded to walk her down the aisle, or held your daughter's hand while she was in labor, then by all means CELEBRATE FATHER's DAY! But if you created a child only to walk away from him or her and then to pretend they never existed then I shall place your celebratory day on hold and create a new holiday just for you called Shit-Bag Dad's Day.

So I am 35 and I have a great life with 2 wonderful children and a fantastic husband who is everything my biological father is not. I would think by now I would have gotten past the hurt and the pain but I haven't. I sit and listen to friends talk about how wonderful their own fathers are and I am jealous. I watch TV and secretly pray and wish that Dr. Richard Webber was my real dad.  I see my best friend's Dad and wish that he could really adopt me, not because I need the financial stability or the guidance that I once needed but because every little girl needs a Daddy! And I know without a shadow of a doubt that if my best friend needed anything that Steve would be right there! Seriously why has Hallmark not created a card for Deadbeat Dad's. I can actually come up with a few kitschy sayings myself: Deadbeat Dad's turning children into angry, hostile adults one kid at a time! 

OK So maybe I altered this a little. But seriously I would buy it and send it!  

I actually found a few on the Internet, which makes me believe that I am not alone in the angry deadbeat dad department. So please take note Hallmark because I think you have your new money maker and I want royalty fees because I came up with the idea!

1. Deadbeat dads: It is time to step up and be a man. Call your children and tell them sorry for being a piece of shit. Then actually stay around and be a positive force in their life!
2. Deadbeat dads simply do not like the rules and many will move, remarry, change names, and work for cash to avoid any and all parental responsibility.
3. Deadbeat dads are like magicians, they pull lifetime disappearing acts.
4. Deadbeat dads are like a plague on society and all should be neutered with a rusty breadknife.
5. Deadbeat dads are the lowest form of life on earth.
6. Deadbeat dads are the real trash of the world. Next are abusers!
7. Deadbeat dads are all over the place, it's almost kind of common....but when a mother leaves her child, people think, "how could a woman do that????"
8. Deadbeat dads don't pay child support. They minimize their taxable income to cheat their kids!

And my personal favorite: 

Deadbeat dads are full of hatred, vengeance and spite. They plunge their kids into poverty or deny them middle-class comfort, just to punish their former partners.

So I am not winning any prizes for being politically correct or bringing home any literary awards but I do speak the truth and try to put a spin of humor in for good measure. If you are one of those people that can't handle the truth.......well I shall stop myself right there because I am sure you already know what I am thinking!