The Teen: Chronicles Of America's Baby Daddy - Book One
I never set out to write a book.
I set out to survive.
To keep my kids fed.
To keep my mind intact.
To keep my heart from turning stone-cold.
This book was born from the weight I couldn’t carry anymore—
So I laid it down, page by page.
These first ten years of fatherhood weren’t just diapers and daycare.
They were discipline and doubt.
They were late-night prayers and early morning fears.
They were about chasing love in a world that doesn’t give it freely,
especially to boys like me.
If you see yourself in these pages—know you're not alone.
And if you don’t—
I hope this book helps you finally see someone you never understood.
Either way, you’re here now.
Welcome to the village.
He was a father before he was old enough to drive. The Teen: Chronicles of America’s Baby Daddy* is not just a coming-of-age story. It’s a coming-through-the-fire story. Eugene Bassham brings raw honesty and street-level poetry to a memoir about young fatherhood, martial discipline, and survival in the urban South. With ten kids and ten thousand lessons behind him, Eugene shows how faith, comedy, and community can turn trauma into testimony. From diaper bags to dojos, this is a story of grit, grace, and the village that raised a man by accident and on purpose.