There are plenty of them out there, but they don't get noticed and you hardly ever read about them, but they're out there. I know many men who have stayed, done the work, while their partner in parenting has been unable to be the mom she thought she could be.  Men, who are the back bone of their family, either together with the children's mom, or without. These Dads don't abandon,  they don't move on to create another family, one they feel will work better than the last. They