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deadbeat dad

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Noun1.deadbeat dad - a father who willfully defaults on his obligation to provide financial support for his offspring
deadbeat, defaulter - someone who fails to meet a financial obligation


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As the money she left for the children's expenses dwindles away, Akira tries to cut corners, bargain-hunt, even hit up his siblings' deadbeat dads.
And when so-called deadbeat dads are labeled irresponsible, it mirrors the anti-abortionists' stereotype of women who want abortions as irresponsible sluts.
For these parents, most of them women, deadbeat dads aren't the problem.
 
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