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[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!

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[mildred_of_midgard]

I thought about the Outlander series and ended up rejecting it on the grounds that, the most major character doesn't get to parent either of his children, and the other fathers who do are mostly off page or only present in snippets: Brian, the Reverend, Lord John Grey, Ian Murray (the elder). Frank, maybe, gets some real page time as a father, so that would fall under important secondary character.

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So it might count!