Nigerian singer Seyi Shay has opened up about the vital role fathers play in a child’s development, especially for girls, describing their presence as “immeasurable.”

Speaking during an episode of the Honest Bunch Podcast, the artist emphasised that having a father figure can greatly influence a child’s emotional stability and open doors to better life opportunities.

According to her, father figures help instill guidance, moral values, and set healthy standards for relationships and friendships, all of which contribute positively to a child’s growth.

Seyi Shay also voiced concern over growing narratives that downplay the importance of men in the home, describing such views as divisive and potentially harmful.

She warned that this mindset could contribute to the rise of broken families and emotionally unstable individuals, stressing the need to acknowledge and value the role of fathers in shaping the next generation.

She said: “Most women that have a father figure are generally more stable growing up. They have a lot more access to a lot more things like good education, good moral values and there’s a bar when they want to get married or when they choose male friends and stuff like that.

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“All this agenda pushing of men are not important. You can do this. I think it’s bullshit because that’s just an agenda placed for there to be more disparity and more division in a home so that we can churn out more broken souls or more lost females and males.”

The artist lauds her life experiences and the timing of her motherhood for allowing her to be a better parent to her daughter.

“Look at me. I’m just so very lucky that I didn’t have a child when I was like 20 or 23 because my daughter would probably grow up to be a mess. Like, having her at this age means that I’m her cheat code.

“It means that I’m able to, like, put her on to certain things and she can avoid certain routes that I took. Because I’ve done them. I’ve been through them. I can tell her all about guys, all about certain friends and how and why and be real and honest with her, and hopefully she will be 10 million times better than me without having to also go through the tribulations and trials that I’ve been through.

“And there are a lot of women like that, you know, today. And there are young mothers as well that are entrepreneurs”, she added.