A poll, because I'm bored

[kellinator]

Some recent conversations and posts got me wondering about this.

[Poll #135679]

Comments

Never met my father

[satia.livejournal.com]

I am sort of automatically forced to be closer to my mother because I have never met my father.

But we really are close.

[becala.livejournal.com]

Same sort of situation with me.. I've met my dad but he pretty much abnegated any financial or otherwise material responsibility for me and has been emotionally unavailable all of my life. So my closeness to my mother doesn't directly have to do with the fact that she's the same gender as me, but rather because she's the one by whom I was raised. At the same time, that has very much to do with her gender. I think it's safe to say, though I haven't looked up the statistics, that it's far more common for the mother to be the sole parent than the father.