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Missing Fathers: Aging Traditional Men and Familial Estrangement
For decades, family therapists have expressed concern about missing or "peripheral" fathers, men who are either emotionally or physically unavailable to their children (Brooks & Gilbert, 1995; Brooks & Silverstein, 1995; Silverstein, 1993). If this lack of availability were conceptualized along a continuum, at one end would be fathers who have minimal emotional involvement, although they are physically present in the home. At the other end would be those fathers who are not only emotionally absent but also are rarely or never seen by their children.
