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Tenth most popular Christmas list request in Britain: “A dad”

A study of 2,000 British parents found most children will put a new baby brother or sister at the top of their Christmas list, closely followed by a request for a real-life reindeer.

A “pet horse” was the third most popular choice, with a “car” making a bizarre entry at number four.

Despite their material requests, the tenth most popular Christmas wish on the list was a “Dad”.

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this is validation that a family = mom + dad + children

and nothing further….

ted c on December 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM

i should clarify,….. a female mother, a male father and assorted childrens…..

ted c on December 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM

ted c on December 25, 2012 at 10:39 AM

Hear, hear! This is just heartbreaking.

DrMagnolias on December 25, 2012 at 10:47 AM

Tragic.
So many kids have no known dad.
And that’s probably not counting those who know who their dads are but never see them.

itsnotaboutme on December 25, 2012 at 10:48 AM

We give you all we need.

Big Government

ted c on December 25, 2012 at 10:49 AM

Very sad.

ConservativeLA on December 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM

But, but….Obama’s Julia didn’t need a father for her child, because the government took care of everything.

/s

Wethal on December 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM

Obviously, these little humans suffer from a “false consciousness” perpetuated by the Patriarchal Hetero-Normal Power Structure. I believe they need to understand that a “family” is any group of humans rearing a child or children or pet gold fish or doll in an environmental of love, respect, tolerance, Earth Stewardship Low Carbon Foot-Print with substantial societal aid provided via social welfare net funded by the Rich having paid their “Fair Share.”

JFKY on December 25, 2012 at 11:01 AM

I suspect that none of the kids who asked for “a dad” are being raised by two women who regularly have adult men in their lives.

libfreeordie on December 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM

Whole lotta babymamas running around these socialist Utopias.

But we have Sandra Fluke and her turkey baster so we’ll catch up sooner or later.

CorporatePiggy on December 25, 2012 at 11:27 AM

Kids, you don’t need a “dad’….just ask wymmynesses.

“From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future – that community asks for and gets chaos.”

– Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Family and Nation, 1965

Resist We Much on December 25, 2012 at 11:37 AM

“Shut up and eat your pudding!”

Shy Guy on December 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM

Just another way society is forcing kids to pay for adult’s indulgences. Just a different kind of debt, a different kind of slavery.

29Victor on December 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM

For those wishing for a dad, may God grant them all their desires in the best way possible.

GWB on December 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM

“Shut up and eat your pudding!”

Shy Guy on December 25, 2012 at 11:41 AM

How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?

Resist We Much on December 25, 2012 at 11:55 AM

“They say it takes a village to raise a child. That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a good village.”

– Diane Sollee

itsnotaboutme on December 25, 2012 at 11:58 AM

SAD .. very sad …. anyone can be a sperm donor … but it takes someone special to be a daddy …..

FWIW … GOD saw fit to not allow me to be a daddy …. guess HE knows me better then I know me….

conservative tarheel on December 25, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Where did “two dads” show up in the list?

Glenn Jericho on December 25, 2012 at 12:26 PM

This should be a national shame for Great Britian

LincolntheHun on December 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM

Pic of the Day: Christmas Comrades in Arms http://tinyurl.com/cxrxum8

Resist We Much on December 25, 2012 at 1:04 PM

Just another way society is forcing kids to pay for adult’s indulgences. Just a different kind of debt, a different kind of slavery.

29Victor on December 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM

sad, but true. The meesers, the Me Generation, indulges its own fantasies which require real live children to prove a point

The State gets less trouble when there are no daddies, because the mamas lean on the State, and the missing father can be replaced by the all knowing State to teach and nurture the kids into perfect obedience

I hope all the kids who want a daddy at least grow up to be good daddies to their own beloved children. I wish them peace, hope and love this Christmas Day, and the freedom that comes from faith

entagor on December 25, 2012 at 1:47 PM