My feelings about my own father are nothing but positive. I know that some people's fathers can be abhorent arseholes however. Thankfully mine isn't. I'm sure I would be a good father, the one thing I need to work on is my temper. I tend to fly off the handle a lot without much provoking. However I'm usually great with kids so I'm guessing I'd be good at the job. As for what I'm going to teach my kids, the primary thing is to always look out for other people and help in anyway you can. I don't want my kids to be greedy, so I'll also teach them the value of friendship and family over material (something many kids lack these days). I don't know if our society has lots of fathers who don't care about their kids, but there seems to be a generally accepted practice that men can leave the kids in the care of their mothers. Indeed, custody laws favour the mother in almost all cases, even when it's obvious that the father would be a much better parent to the child.