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“I recently had a conversation with my dad where he said, ‘I was a very active parent, and I would come home to you every day.’”
“But all he did was work. He wasn’t cooking, or cleaning, or helping us with our homework, or making me feel better when I was sad, or helping me deal with bullies, or doing my hair, or coaching me through relationships or problems, or helping me In developing hobbies. “Or personality. He just paid the bills. If he wasn’t yelling at us for not cleaning, he wasn’t interacting with us. I don’t really think my father knew any of us. He still called us names. “My stepmother and my mother raised us. “But he is convinced that he was an active parent because he would come home at night.”
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