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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]

Not great as in "let's all take him as our role model," but great as in very well written.

Yes! You get where he's coming from, by the end, and why he does what he does, and he gets some great moments in there too. <3

I've seen Godfather (and loved the movie), so I get the warnings for that :) I know enough about Gone with the Wind that I am not surprised by any of that -- but now I'm surprised I never actually did read it, it sounds like the natural sort of thing I would have inhaled as a kid. (ETA: not because of the slavery/KKK, of course, but because of the antebellum South historical-ish etc.)