Rebuilding the relationship between father and son
I Want My Dad Back is a thought-provoking, emotional; but also funny and heart-warming programme which follows two fathers and their sons who want to re-build their relationships before it's too late with the help of a leading psychotherapist.
British boys are in crisis. With almost half of marriages predicted to end in divorce, with nearly two-thirds of fathers losing contact with their kids within two years of a relationship breakdown, huge numbers of children are growing up seeing their fathers rarely, if at all.
Can something be done to repair bonds between absentee dads and their lost sons, and prevent the painful pattern from being repeated in the next generation?
But after a lifetime of let-downs, it’s a huge job for the fathers to regain their sons’ trust. And it’s an emotional experience – sometimes painful, sometimes joyful - for everyone involved.
