Example of Dad Stepping Up.

When thinking about the fact that the mother is the one parent who is usually missing indicates that the father needs a moment to shine and the best movie that we see this the move "Despicable Me".

In this movie if you haven't seen it, is about a man who is supposed to be a villain adopts three little girls from a orphanage. While he goes through this process of adopting he only thinks about one thing and that's to take the moon and put it in his house. This villains name is Gru, and Gru has to step up and become a father and do what a father does. His original idea was to just adopt and then proceed to take and then return the children. As Gru goes on with his life he notices that they don't know many key life skills and this molds him.

Gru being a solo parent needs to act as both a mother and a father. He not only takes them to school and makes them into a functional family he has to adapt to jobs and acts in which a mom would help out with. Gru has to work, cook, clean, and provide love and affection (ignore the fact that he has his minions do the cleaning and cooking).

But with the mother being gone its showing that the one parent job can be filled out by a father or a dad. As fathers are looked at in today's world they are either there and caring or just missing in general and not present. Grue really steps up and manages to complete task and jobs while caring for his family.