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[quote=Anonymous]Obviously men (writ large) love their kids.  But it's also feasible for men to be much more detached from their kids than women.  My DH is probably the best dad I've ever met, and he didn't really connect with our baby until birth.  By that time I had a good 4 months of planning everything in my life around the baby I could feel kicking inside of me.  It became "real" to him when he could hold her and see her.

It's possible for a man to get a woman pregnant and peace out entirely before the resutling baby becomes "real" to him.  These are the deadbeat dads that are just literally creating broken homes all over town with multiple women and dodging child support and never seeing their kids.  I don't think it's really possible to argue that they love their kids.

But this thread is about dads who live with their kids, help raise them, pay for their needs and feed them and bathe them (and in one instance, even go on field trips with their school) - turning around and saying they don't love their kids because it doesn't look exactly like what the mom's relationship with the kids looks like, seems pretty nuts.  Do some divorced people prioritize their newfound "freedom" and "second chance" over family time and their kids' stability?  Yeah, in both genders.  Does that mean that Men aren't capable of experiencing filial love?  Obviously not.[/quote]

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