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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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[cahn]

I am appalled at how few titles I can think of that fit your criteria. YA authors seem to be very fond of killing off parents.

I KNOW, right?? I could easily come up with twice as many YA books where the parents were dead or missing or alive but just not at all... present. (And to be fair quite a number where the parents are around, just not at all an interesting part of the story.)

Taking notes on these! I've read Cooper and L'Engle, and it's definitely true that one of the things I love about both of them is the lovely family writing...