Seth, an incarcerated New Mexico youth, recently wrote a letter of apology to his father. He’s trying to take responsibility for robbing his father’s house on Christmas Eve. Filmmaker Justin Hunt, however, wonders who’s taking responsibility for Seth. Hunt addresses the topic in his new film “Absent.”

“While Hunt acknowledges there are absent mothers also in the world, he said the subject of absent fathers particularly interested him because of the magnitude of the issue worldwide. Undoubtedly, he said, fathers tend to leave families more often. Farmington [New Mexico] Juvenile Detention Center Director Traci Neff sees the results every day. More than 90 percent of juveniles incarcerated at the center did not have fathers in their lives, Neff said.” [Source: Farmington (MN) Daily-Times]

Many of the young men Hunt interviewed for his film admitted they would have made different decisions if they’d had a father figure in their lives. “Absent” premiered Saturday, August 28th in Albuquerque.

Labels: medical_records, parenting, fathers, loss

Posted By: Stefanie Hamilton