Reply #32: In cases I have delt with [View All]

either the mother doesn't know, can't identify, or refuses to identify the father. Or the father fell into the demographic of the OP and views this as himself being victimized by a psycho and doesn't want or isn't mature enough to handle the responsibility or the tie responsibility would demand to the mother. Or the father is in the same position (chemical dependent, unstable, unemployed or unemployable, mental illness, or an abuser not suitable to be a caregiver either). Poor choices on both sides of a child makes the child the victim. Not defending deadbeat dads but these circumstances almost always lead to these circumstances in my experiences.