Fathers that long ago worked maybe 50 hrs a week and had weekends off for the family. The father was also the one the kids feared especially boys because he'd come home tired, get the rundown from mom and gave out the punishment either a spanking, loss of allowance, bike, or grounding. WIthout the internet a grounding sucked since it meant staying along bored in your room and no friends or others. A spanking made you remember how you fucked up so bad and not to do it again. That is when a father was allowed to be a father. Now the faggots in welfare won't let you raise your kids right even. So the ideas fathers were not home was not the norm. The ones that were not were likely fathers of the hippies that ran free and were entitled but became lowlives as a form of rebellion.