He was. He started off passing on abuse but when child welfare was called by a teacher he realized he was wrong and tried to change. Ma messed that up. Later as a adult I had a great relationship with daddy, but not until the momster made trouble that caused us not to speak for years. Then he started ignoring most of her crap.he died at 77 in 2007 on june 17 which was Father's Day. He looked like a kid in his casket.