Content creator and scriptwriter Abel Mutua has disclosed how lack of a father figure affected his life while growing up.
According to the content creator, his dad left his mother while he was still a youngster.
In an interview with Presenter Ali Mutua opened up on how being raised by a single mother shaped him and how his dad left.
At some point in his life, the father of one said he became a troublesome child and started misbehaving all because he lacked a father figure.
“Me growing up I passed through some phases at some point my biological dad left us so a father figure is very important in a family
“So when my dad left I became a useless child, I put my mum through so much, and looking back all that misbehaving was because I lacked a father figure,” Mutua recalled.
As such, Mutua said he is currently very much involved in his daughter’s life so that she may not go through what he experienced.
“So I made the decision not to subject my kid to that coz for me God helped me to reform to get back, right now I can’t get it wrong with my child it would hurt me a lot if I let my child go through what I went through,” he stated.
Mutua said lacking a father figure messed his self esteem and he was not able to speak up and express himself.
Most of the time, in such cases, he would act up just as any other kids when he finds himself in a difficult situation.
“I will have to be there for this girl I want to be among the first people who know whenever anything happens to her. Coz if I don’t have a relationship with her then I don’t know what she is doing out there I don’t know who she is interacting with it’s very dangerous things start going south you are definitely the last person to know which is very wrong,” he said.