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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Sunday, June 20, 1999 Single Fathers parents, aunts and uncles is even alone, and they havediscovered a few tricks to makeit easier. Both “Those people end up being an- In any case, the principles of good fathering need notvary with have come up with ways to keep the house clean, the garbage out and the fighting to a minimum. Stephanie Rona says the job chart is great, but she wishes she could should providefor their children. the trash, with them. Despiie the crunch of work, shopping and household has become a penny-pincher at morecritical. Find Path Hard But Rewarding 7 Continued From A-1 other adult encourager in their lives,” Dollahite said. be responsible only for taking out marital status. First, fathers Second, they should spend time Utah. He nowis a mortgage loan officer in Ogden. | “Iworkedoutofthe countrysix months outof the year to make those child-support payments and I decided I wanted to see more of mykids,” hesaid. In North Salt Lake, the Rona kids have planned breakfast in bed for their dad, 44-year-old Peter. Except for a brief monthslong foray into a marriage that didn't work out, Rona has been raising his three children, Stephanie, 11, David, 9, and Levi, 6, gle parents in general, and that’s The older boys in both families are involved in Scouting and all though Logan Phippen confesses to one A-minus. do a pretty good job with their is fishing. “Onetime I caught like 20,” Logan said. Rich Phippen goes to all their parent-teacher conferences and Rona uses community resourceslike Big Brothers-Big Sisters to fill the gap single parenting has created, but single beer cans for recycling right that minute before she forgets. “T just wish I could find some surrogate grandparents,” said Rona, whoseparents died decades ago. Brigham Young University Professor and fatherhood expert David Dollahite said that desire is no accident. “The world would be a better place if every child had involvement with their grandparents,” he said. For children of single parents, the connection to grand- the children do well in school, al- gle-parent home. They'rejust exhaustedat the endof the day,” he said. But chances are that fathers and mothers, single or married, a child is in the most needoflove better for their children because menstill make more money, and boys raised by single fathers seem slightly less inclined to get into trouble than their counterparts whoareraised by single mothers. And single fathers are much morelikely to remarry than their female counterparts. About 90 percent of single fathers remarry, Phippens'all-timefavorite outing adjusts his work schedule to volunteer on schoolfield trips. The Ronakids like tennis, their trampoline, swimming and drive- in movies with their dad. “T like it when my dad acts fun- ny with us, too,” David Ronasaid. Rona, a constable, often splits his day into an early-morning and late-evening shift to spend more time with the kids. “Tve learned a couple of things through this,” he said. ‘God has being a single parent doesn’t give you time to be depressed.” Phippensaid he could never do it without the help of his parents, Jay and Nancy, whoinsist their the altar. most important contribution is just support. “It's sad but truethat a lot more women arewilling to marry aman sions for the children. I just help content to raise their children “Richard makes all the deci- out whenI can. 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Your days are enriched with a spectrum of programs and events that you can enjoyas you continuetolive an independent complete changeof life.” Falwell’s NewspaperSets Itself Up for Criticism — Again Jerry Falwell’s newspaper, which previously claimed that a popular “Teletubbies” character is a gay role model, now asserts that the All before lunch. blessed me with these kids, and gle mothers make another trip to ing to marry a woman with children,” Dollahite said For now, Phippen and Rona are exercise class, Both men enjoy mountain-bik- ing with their children, and the while only 60 to 70 percent ofsin- with children than menare will- took an it with oneonsale. riages. It’s compoundedin a sin- and support andteaching and try to provide that,” Dollahite said. But some things are different forsingle fathers. In general, Dollahite said, they tend to provide to Stephanie to gather the root- bathroom tissue, and she replaced the case with most fathers in mar- childrenif they simply try. “Different children need dif- Today, Janet e-mailedher grandson, One day her dad picked up a certain brand of ferent things, but I believe the most important thing any parent can do is try to understand where fatherhoodis still no picnic. “Women might have moreof a built-in support network to do this,”’ he said, between reminders the grocery store. duties, children spell lovet-i-m-e, Dollahite said. “That's a real challenge forsin- alone for the past five years. Rona and Phippen got custody of their children after their divorces. Jared Phippen likes to cook and $89. 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