Single mothers, educators, therapists and children found the book to be 'helpful', 'healing' and 'therapeutic' for the following reasons:

• It focuses on parents' instinctive and unconditional love for their children and their innate hope to pass along their finest qualities.
• It portrays a positive image of both parents to the child reader, and explains that each parent can choose their own path.
• It cultivates a sense of self-worth, self-acceptance, and self-reliance within the child by helping him/her to cultivate an internal relationship with their dad.

The only book written by both a woman without a father and a psychologist who is respected throughout the world.

Disclaimer: The book presents the father in a positive light and does not encourage negative feelings or parental alienation. Thus, it might be a better fit for some families than others.