A young man, who took the time to give an insight into his personal experience of fatherhood, has been left overwhelmed by the publicity his Facebook post has garnered.

21-year-old Richard Johnson, who is father to a 10-month-old baby girl, opened up about life as a single dad and admitted to the various struggles he faced while raising baby Peresphone alone.

Posting to the Life of Dad Facebook page, Richard began by outlining his current family dynamic: "'I'm a single father to a beautiful little girl named Persephone. Her mother left about a month after she was born. We still don't know exactly why, but we suspect post-partum depression played a part."

Telling social media users that he struggled with the notion of raising his child alone, he wrote: "I was so nervous and scared about being a father in general, but now I was a single father and had to fulfill two roles. I wasn't sure I could do it."
 


Paying tribute to the Facebook page which encouraged him during his most vulnerable times, he continued: "I then started to watch your page more closely and saw that there were other fathers out there who were in similar predicaments as me. The page started to turn into a major confidence booster and really helped me through all of this."

Revealing that he read 'every new parent book' and 'clocked in over 1000 hours' on YouTube learning how to braid hair and paint nails, Richard admits that his journey has been far from easy, but he's getting there slowly but surely.

"We’ve come a long way, my daughter and me, and we definitely owe part of that to this page and the people within it. So from both of us, we wanted to thank you," he wrote in a post which has been picked up by various social media outlets.
 


Elaborating further since the publication of his letter, Richard told the media that his child's mother set him an ultimatum, recalling: "She took my little girl to California, but then called a week later and said if I didn’t come get Persephone, she was going to put her up for adoption."

Richard looks on himself and his little girl as a team, and recalling the first night she crawled, he wrote: "She came to me and laid her tiny little hand on my cheek and stared into my eyes"

"I took it as ‘Come on Daddy, we have a lot to do.’ So I told her no more crying for either of us and we were going to fight to be happy. We’ve kept true to that promise," he insisted.

We think it sounds like he's doing a wonderful job.

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