Outline

Purpose: I'm writing about the importance of a father in a girl's life. I hope to inform my audience about the importance of a good father-daughter relationship and how this relationship affects a girl emotionally, socially, and physically.

Thesis: The interaction of a father in his daughter's life affects her emotionally, socially, and physically.

Introduction:
-It's important for kids to have both parents involved in their lives.
-Father's don't realize how important their role is in their daughter's life.

Emotional Effects:
-Loss of a father can be devastating
-Girls with absent fathers are often depressed, angry, and fear rejection.
-Depression in young girls relates to their relationship with their father.

Social Effects:
-A father sets a girl up for how she will interact in future relationships with other males.
-A successful relationship with a male is dependent on a good father-daughter relationship.
-Adolescent age girls seek and need male attention.

Physical Effects:
-A girl needs her dad the most during puberty, when she is changing physically.
-At this point in a girl's life, dad usually backs out because he feels uncomfortable with the situation.

Conclusion:
-No matter what the situation is, a girl needs her father or at least a father figure in her life.
-Fathers are the most important man in a girl's life.