Who do you think is more important for the kids, the dad or the mom?

i think mum and dad is not a zero sum game. mum and day are 1 not 2, cannot be separate out. kid with single parent, always feel missing something even after they growth out. my kid, sometime they need mum more, sometime they need day more, depend on what they needs at that particular time.

as a mom of 3 kids,i as i had observed my kids,they can't choose whom to choose.as they both love us...but maybe the right question is...to whom kids are more closest...mom or dad?...then,i can say, kids are more closer to their moms than dads and maybe you know the reason why=))

I think it depends on the people and their interconnected relationships. I know many women look up to their mothers--I don't. My mother contributed near nothing to my life although she was there throughout it all. She's not a very nice person to those in her immediate family, and I never admired her when I was little because she was many things that I never wanted to be.

My father, on the other hand, would teach me what I'd want to know. I was a very mature and inquisitive child. I inquired about the stock market when I was ten years old from both my dad and mom. My mom claimed I was too young to understand, but then my dad explained it to me in every detail regardless of if I caught all the details. My father taught me money-handling...how to run a business when I started mine at fifteen...

If my mother was more important and I took after her, I'd be an unemployed shopoholic with many other negative traits. I admire my dad for his hard-working and motivated ethics, and therefore I am successful today. Mothers may be more important for some kids, but my father might as well have been the only parent I had.

Well of course both are important for the kids since each of them play a different role for the children. But if assuming that the parents would break up, it would depend on what age the children are. The children usually needs more the care of the mother from the time they are born up to around 6-7 years old. Considering that at this age, they need more the care and attention that a mother could give being children. As the kids grow old, then it could be either the mother or the father. That is why in our country, assuming that parents get separated and both parents have no psychological problem, then the child should be in with the mother. After reaching the age of 8 the child can then be given either to the father or mother depending on who can provide better financial and emotional support.

i think it depends on the mother and father, for some kids it would be more important to be without both. mother and father effect different qualities in people. i learned how to solder, make electric stoves and how to do art from my dad, and how to cook, knit and patch up walls from my mum.

I think that it depends on where the child is in their life. I mean, kids are going to like or connect to one parent more than the other, but as far a being important, I think mothers are more important in the very early years, fathers take over in adolescence when the kid needs more structure and discipline, then I think it moves back to mothers for the most part in the rest of life.

Yes even for me it is very difficult to decide who is more important father or a mother because for me also both have their own importance for a child.I can't live without my parents even though I am married.It is said that a father helps a child financially and mother emotionally but I think at some place even father can provides a emotional support to their child and if mother is working she can help her child financially also.but in general mothers are emotional support for their child and father is like a protector of his child.

I think both are important and essential for a child . Absence of one hampers the growth of a child and also deprives child of the emotional and other supports they need.

Overall, however,mothers are generally closer to their children in terms of emotional and psychological support .

Regards

that was alos my discussion before and a most of them responded it by "comparing for both of them is very hard.." but for my own opinion, i prefer mmy mother.. i love my father but my mother is in the top..!!