The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business

Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by Pharylon on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:16AM (#15661760)

It seems positive from what he says, but we only have one side of the story.

How does the daughter feel about having a father she sees so infrequently? Is it hard on her? Does she wonder why he won't come help her when she calls him out of the blue over some emergency? Now that she's older, would it be easier for her to know the truth?

We don't know. What I do know is eventually she'll find out, somehow. What happens then?

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by belorn on Thursday November 09, 2017 @08:40AM (#15662226)

This question should be possible to be semi-answered by psychology studies. Do stability during the teen years outweigh a large negative event during adolescence? Seems like a question that researchers has been poking at for the last 100 years.

Bullying also has its own share of research (https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/bullying/conditionin...). It will not be easy to get a fair evaluation of harm vs harm mitigation.

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Re:The Booming Japanese Rent-A-Friend Business by dragontamer on Thursday November 09, 2017 @01:14PM (#15664509)

Her real father left.

So the real question is: is the 4-hours a week of fake fatherhood better than being a bullied, emotionally traumatized kid throughout some of the hardest moments of growing up?

Its a fake, rent-a-father for 4 hours a week. But that fake fatherhood is probably way better than no fatherhood at all.

Its a difficult moral question for sure.

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