Sunday is regarded as Father's Day. I wonder how many Jamaican men are expecting a thank you from their children or their wives or, like some will say, their baby mother. A lot of them leave their children all over the place. Some do not even know how many they have, and some have the nerve to show up after the child has achieved something in life then they suddenly realise that they have a child.

The mother had to carry and support alone while they happily go about their business and did not even have the decency to have their names on the birth certificate. The mother should have the right, whether the father signs the form or not, to put his name on the birth certificate. It is such an embarrassment abroad when the child has to be registered in school to have a birth certificate without a father's name. It gives the impression that the mother was so loose that she does not know the father of her child.

I do not know how the Jamaican Government could allow such a thing to go on for so long. I am not bashing the few good fathers, congratulations to them; but there are a lot of them that should be hanging their heads in shame this Father's Day.

- J. McDonald, J McD062658@optonline.net, Bronx, N.Y., Go-Jamaica