When I read the title, I look at it from a reader's point of view and I think: "What does this guy have to say that I don't already know".
Well I don't know if I would be called an expert but I am a single parent of a beautiful eighteen year old daughter.
So, I would have to say that I know what I'm talking about.
I have raised her since birth and she now attends a Community College.
Now, with that said, I believe fathers are protective and can be separated into two categories.
Each of these can be broken down into separate subcategories but I'll only focus on the two.
First; there is the father that doesn't want his daughter to be like all of his past girlfriends in which he was extremely friendly with.
This does not (for the most part) include her mother.
The second is the girlfriend he wanted, dreamed about or was raised around.
This could be her mother and no disrespect to mom if she wasn't.
But every man can remember his boyhood "Dream Girl".
I personally fall into the first category.
I bloomed late in High School and quickly made up for lost time.
I never disrespected or hurt any woman physically, but I did have a fair share of broken hearts and pissed off families and friends in my dust.
When I met my daughter's mother, I changed.
Problem was she was exactly like me and was soon gone after the birth of my daughter.
That forever changed me and my attitude.
While raising my daughter I was not only had to keep a look out for all the younger "me's", I also was straight forward with my daughter about life and any other subject.
This was the only way that made sense to me.
Being the mother and the father left little time for subtleties.
My directness with my daughter and the knowledge that I gave her about the different types of boys has made her a very intelligent and beautiful woman.
Other father may not have this same situation but they were that type of boy.
Heaven help his daughter's boyfriends from being that type of person.
The second category I can only relate to by observations of other fathers and one of my best friends.
The title "Dream Girl" could be broken into sub-categories other than its apparent meaning.
I could be the father's mother or sister.
This is the father that wants a feminine but strong type of woman.
She has the grades (hopefully) and is socially active.
She may be somewhat sheltered but for all the good reasons.
The father will be there in her adulthood fit any pieces left out.
Now she may not be all of these things but that is the general direction in which the father is guided in watching over his daughter.
For these reason the father will go to the ends of the earth to make sure she is protected.
This has been one man's perspective on the subject.
As stated before each of these two categories can be broken down but they all come back to the two.
Neither way is better than the other as long as his 'Baby Girl" is safe.
Much of the way he watch's over his daughter is based on how the father came to be a man.
Those events he encountered in life and the principles he learned from his parents are his building blocks.
It's the father that wants his little girl to not be like the ones he knew growing up or the girl who is royalty or similar.
The daughter can be the harshest of tomboys, the beautiful princess or the Wall Street Bulldog.
To the father; and this father, she will always need his protection until his last moments in life.