premise: He raised me on his own because my mom was n't the best role - model and was more interested in finishing high school than raising me . I mean , my dad was n't a saint , but he did what he did to give me everything he never had . For the first 13 years of my life I lived with my dad in San Francisco 's Oakdale projects , 1100 block to be exact . My dad was more then a dad to me , he was more like my hero . What may have caused your dad to raise you on his own ?
hypothesis: My mother was n't present in my life .