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A Dad for Aina (2002)
“Why would I need a dad? Dads are
out. Two of my friends have got them and they just shout and
stress all the time. What’s the point in having a dad?”
Aina Westlye is the
ultimate contemporary urban teenager. Cool, sassy and incredibly
confident, Aina has never met her dad. Doesn’t even
have a photo. But no sympathy,
please. Aina is happy with her dadless life. Over her nineteen
years she’s formed the opinion that dads are simply
unnecessary.
Aina tests her theory that you don’t
need a dad. She meets a selection of dads to find out what
they’re for, starting with a trip to the Home Counties
for Sunday lunch with a ‘perfect’ dad and his
family. She takes on George, who infuriates Aina by labelling
her dangerous because she challenges the traditional family
status quo. In her quest Aina also visits a Christian Great
Dads conference and asks a speaker “do you think I need
a dad?”
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