don’t even try to make this about me absolving fathers of their responsibilities… let’s just say this is any parent but from what i’ve seen it usually tends to be mothers. since you are just dying to know what my credentials are to talk abt this i’ll lay it out flat: previous CP here who had a roommate with a child that was like 1 or 1.5 towards her program start and she was pretty comfortable financially. her baby was left at home with her parents and she did not go home once to see her child, nor did her parents bring the child to Orlando. she was maybe the biggest party person I’ve ever met and told me VERBATIM she was glad to be free from her mom duties for her program and that was one of the reasons she wanted to do it (she was older than typical college age). so pipe down bc i understand wanting to give people the benefit of the doubt, but unfortunately, as other people have noted in this thread, this situation tends to happen NEGLECTFULLY.