(no subject)

[cahn]

Please rec me books with dads who are major characters (important secondary character is fine) and for whom parenting is an important component of their character, with kids who are older at the time of canon (teenager or above). They don't need to be good parents, necessarily, and they can make horrible mistakes, but they should be (relatively?) non-abusive and clearly love their kid(s).

So far I've got

-Aral Vorkosigan (...I guess he's not super a main character any more, but he casts a pretty long shadow)
-Atticus Finch
-Andrew Wiggin
-Jean Valjean
-Reb Saunders and David Malter
-Van Hohenheim (taking the prize for not being a good parent and making horrible mistakes...)

...this is a much lower percentage of the books we own than I had thought it would be!

Comments

[ricardienne]

Wait a few more!

- the father in All of a Kind Family— in the last couple, especially Ella of All of a Kind Family, the older girls are teenagers or older, and the father is just as kind and loving and an important part of their lives.
-Johnnie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is an extremely flawed dad, and he dies when the protagonist is relatively young, BUT he’s so important in her life even as she grows into teenager and young adulthood that maybe he counts?
-I suppose Sabriel and Touchstone are active and good parents in the later Old Kingdom books.

[cahn]

Oh man, I need to go back to All of a Kind Family, I am pretty sure I read them but I remember exactly zero about them!

Johnnie!! Yes, yes, he totally counts. What a great (and extremely flawed) character <3

I stopped reading after the first couple of Old Kingdom books -- is it worth reading further?