Dennis does not want to be an absent father to the baby, so Sharon leaves without him.

He is an astronomer, and before his wife's death was very much an absent father.

In another, an absent father or parents who never worked.

Consider, for instance, a single mother on welfare and her children's absent father.

He shared with me his history: an abusive mother, an absent father.

Other absent fathers soon sent money home, transforming the lives of their families.

He was an only child with an absent father.

She is from a family with nine children, an exhausted mother and an absent father.

"I was an absent father when the kids were little," he said.

The 1996 law also places new pressure on absent fathers to pay child support.