As you read on, look for other examples of good and bad fathers.

Peter says that he has been a worst father than Abraham.

It does not make him feel like a bad father.

She calls me sir, right to my face, as if I were her father or something even worse.

He hadn't looked after her properly, he'd been a bad father.

"Too bad your father didn't live to see this," the mother says.

Put simply, he was awful: a poor friend, a bad son and husband, a worse father.

"Too bad your father will not be able to attend."

He told me once that he'd been a bad father and a terrible husband.

Sam had to make an effort not to feel convicted of being a bad father.