How come some men prefer not to be “step daddy”?

Why so many men don’t want the step daddy role?
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  • Raising another man's children isn't an easy task, you're always going to get that "your not my real dad" thing thrown back in your face, regardless of how much sacrifice you make for them and how much you financially support them. Some step father step kid relationships work out great and others hust put a strain on the husband wife relationship.
    It's bot that I don't want to be a step father, I definitely don't want my own anymore, but I can see why some guys would see it as too much hassle. My current partner of whom I'm not in a serious monogamous relationship with, has a 9 year old daughter from her first marriage, and I have to admit it scares me a bit as to when the relationship does become serious and monogamous, and I start taking on a more serious father role to her. I desperately want the relationship with my partner to work out, but what if the relationship I have with her daughter as a step father doesn't work out because maybe she resents me or something, what happens to the relationship with my partner then?

Most Helpful Guy

  • It conflicts with their natural distaste to becoming the 'cuckold' baby daddy to perpetuate some
    'player's genetic heredity not wanting to wear a condom. "But Baby, it dun feelz dat same wit a rubbah!"
    is the 'one night stand' hit-n-run artist's argument!
    ... Then, take it to "Mother Palm and her five daughters!"
    Nature's example is the real world Cuckoo who lays their egg in another specie's nest and when the egg hatches it kills the host bird's chicks to improve its share of the native bird's parenting!

    However, there's also is the realization that in the argument of 'nature vs. nurture'.

    MUCH depends upon the firsthand observation of the example that the step Dad demonstrates
    in the children's pre-teen formative years. Genuine emotional adoption generates
    a CHOSEN lifelong bond!

Most Helpful Girl

  • Probably the same reason some women don’t want to be step mommy.

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  • Stepdaddy = all of the responsibilities of being a dad but few or none of the rights, privileges, and benefits of being daddy.

  • No problem here I'm getting on good with my girlfriend's son but have warned her I might have to lean on her for a bit of advice to start with.

  • Because most men prefer a woman without baggage.

  • Same reasons a lot of women vehemently avoid a step mom role I assume.

  • What's good about it? Why would a childless man choose a woman busy raising another man's children?

  • 1. Drama.
    2. Likely cheating since she has contact with her ex.
    2. The kid won't want to listen to the step parent.
    4. At the beginning of the relationship when you are supposed to have alone time together the kid will often be a problem.
    5. She will prioritize her kid over her new mate.
    6. The expense.
    7. Why be with someone that made bad life decisions?
    8. She won't have as much time for the man.
    9. I want my own kids and she likely has majority custody of her kid, proving that she is the type to steal the kid from its rightful father.
    10. If the relationship doesn't work out she can take the kid away after you get attached.

    I have no interest at all in being with someone that has a kid from someone else.

  • I don't mind that role at all. I guess they get wrapped up about the idea of taking care of someone else's kids as not being their responsibility.

  • A lot of men have no idea how to be a father figure.

  • Maybe because the step daddy role is viewed so negatively in society.

  • It sounds too naughty for me.

  • Why step daddy when just daddy is possible

  • Seems obvious. Why would they want it? Why dont 18 year olds who aren't ready for kids not want to adopt 3 kids? Uhh duh? Same kind of answer to both situations.

  • Sometimes it's hard to be a stepdad.

  • why would anyone want to dedicate their life and money to raising a kid that is not theirs? the better question would be... How are some men fooled so easily?

  • Who would want that? As opposed to having their own kids?

  • Well here at least, and I do not know where you are from. You can disinherit your kids but you can not disinherit your step kids. Once you choose to make them your step children it is for life. To me that is not a bad thing but to others it makes them think twice...

  • Why is the norm we have to? Single moms out here expecting themselves to be the gold standard?

    Yet you shit on single fathers probs

  • For me be heart broken if broke up with the girl and bonded with the child be super hard

  • they want to focus on being a husband

  • Incest isn't that appealing.

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