I hate fatherhood

I despise cliches. One which I detest the most is the saying, "that which does not kill me makes me stronger." I prefer to turn it around. "That which does not make me stronger kills me." I feel this way about fatherhood. I detest fatherhood. I would wish it on no one nowadays. Too much can go wrong. Too much shit can happen. Call me a cynic. Fatherhood has brought me much pain, thanks to an ex-wife who does all in her power to turn my children against me. Though she has not completely succeeded in this, to some extent she has. I do not see my children frequently enough to know. To speak of the pain I have suffered, however, seems selfish when there are so many more fathers out there who have not seen their children in years or who don't even know where they are. I am fortunate that my children do not hate me and that I still know where they are. Too many fathers have it real tough and my heart goes out to them. Especially fathers who do not have much of a support network to get them through all the shit they must go through. These are the fathers who, according to Just Another Disenfranchised Father (6/20 post), can wind up becoming murderers/suicides. Not that I condone these people's actions at all, but if we all truly understood the suffering of what many of these fathers (and/or mothers) had to endure, we would be much slower to place sole blame on them and much quicker to try to remedy the all too often cause of such horrible acts, Parental Alienation.