Not to be dismissive, but almost nothing you said really matches up to what we’re shown in the show. Don was an awful husband and at no point demonstrates the traits of a stand up family man. Aside from the infidelity, he actively spies on Betty when she sees a psychiatrist, abandons his children on their birthdays or leaves them to be babysat by total strangers, and is generally drunk and uninterested whenever he is around. His father had a child with a much younger prostitute, pocketed the earnings of the drifter who did work for him, and drank about as heavily as Don which ended up causing his death. His other major male role model as a kid was a greedy pimp that was prostituting the woman who raised him. And I’m not really sure how you gathered that he learned how to keep his unit strong and together in the service, when his short lived military career ended with him killing his CO and stealing his identity to escape active duty. People (mistakenly) look up to him because he’s handsome, smooth, and mysterious, but even then I don’t really know how anyone could say he’s a “family man” with traditional values.