Not going to debate semantics: fact is he was unable to see, raise and share in the life of his boys. Maybe you think he should've suffered himself and his family through a bad marriage. Can't think that's anything but naive.
Divorce is ideally a process where two adults can agree to separate while they both remain in the lives of their kids. Unfortunately fathers are routinely shafted.
I don't think any such thing, but parental separation can be managed in a way which doesn't result in one parent moving to another state with a new partner. I guess that would make him "unable" to share in the life of his boys, but was he abducted interstate at gunpoint? He's the adult, he made the choices and now he's whingeing about the consequences.
Unfortunately, fathers often leave children when they leave partners and then complain they're estranged from their children.
I think this Ellenna person jumped to conclusions and probably is the type that thinks all men are alike. I've seen many of that type. As my post states below I raised my sons in joint physical custody for many years before I left the state. In fact they lived with me and my wife [their step mother] for a good 9 years. Their step mother treated them 10 times better than their own mother. She completely accepted them and loved and nurtured them, even going as so far as setting up a college fund for both of them by herself.
IIN to love your adult children even though they hate you?
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Not going to debate semantics: fact is he was unable to see, raise and share in the life of his boys. Maybe you think he should've suffered himself and his family through a bad marriage. Can't think that's anything but naive.
Divorce is ideally a process where two adults can agree to separate while they both remain in the lives of their kids. Unfortunately fathers are routinely shafted.
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I don't think any such thing, but parental separation can be managed in a way which doesn't result in one parent moving to another state with a new partner. I guess that would make him "unable" to share in the life of his boys, but was he abducted interstate at gunpoint? He's the adult, he made the choices and now he's whingeing about the consequences.
Unfortunately, fathers often leave children when they leave partners and then complain they're estranged from their children.
I think this Ellenna person jumped to conclusions and probably is the type that thinks all men are alike. I've seen many of that type. As my post states below I raised my sons in joint physical custody for many years before I left the state. In fact they lived with me and my wife [their step mother] for a good 9 years. Their step mother treated them 10 times better than their own mother. She completely accepted them and loved and nurtured them, even going as so far as setting up a college fund for both of them by herself.