Some of the most common are anger about the divorce agreement, inability to deal with the mother's anger, the difficulty of becoming a visiting father after having been a live-in father, having grown up without a father, having witnessed domestic violence in the home as a child, depression, alcoholism, pathological narcissism or a combination of the above. And Mr. Bryan knows. The book is a guide for these disconnected fathers. Divorce produces a miasma of hurt feelings that stand in the disconnected parent's way, Mr. Bryan said. A visiting parent has to face this every time he drops off the children.
Studies prove fathers stay more connected, emotionally as well as financially.
Allow fathers equal access. That allows him to feel like a real parent, not a second-class citizen around his children. In his book, he recounts some of their stories, as well as the stories of children who have been separated from parents.