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There are good fathers and bad fathers. Some are not good for anything but generating money.
My DIL's ex is a real piece of work. When his sons were 5 he told them they weren't getting anything for Christmas because they were bad. Their mother had to get them gifts from "dad" to try to keep them from being effed up. The next year he didn't get them anything because he said their mother took all his money from him. But he bought his girlfriend a motorcycle for Christmas that year. He told the oldest boy that if he had behaved better his little brother wouldn't have died of cancer. The poor kid still thinks he is responsible for his brother's death and has serious emotional issues - depression, self mutilating, etc. The boys have been asking why he doesn't marry his live-in girlfriend. He tells them it is because their mother takes all his money and he can't afford to get married. When oldest asked how he could afford his motorcycles (he has 4 or 5) and annual trip to Sturgis he got a smack in the face and was told it costs a lot less to spend two weeks in Sturgis every year than to get married.
Some kids are better off without a "father."
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