It's so wild how easy it is to be a deadbeat dad. You could conceive a child, skip town, and conceive another child 3 days later. The power of the male reproductive system is often used in an evil way…just look at Nick Cannon! He had 5 kids who were born in the year 2022 alone, with two of them being born in the same month to two different mothers. There's no way he's a consistent presence in the lives of all 12 of his children, and that's tragic no matter how much money he's paying in child support.
Some dads are deadbeats to one kid and perfect parents to another. Very people can have a secret family and balance them both equally, but they can sure abandon one kid to raise another or have a secret kid nobody ever finds out about. The dad in question is certainly the run and start over type.
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