A deeply cynical part of me says that for some parents,their children are nothing more then their own biologically related servants to whom they would never ascribe/or be utterly oblivious to the concept of them have their own causes and goals they would like to satisfy which does not require always being at their side helping them at an uncaningly common rate--cynical thought on my dad; I know it's bad and I shouldn't think of it. I don't think it happens as often as with my mom.
Then again tbh no one in our family really likes our dad, then again to quote a former crush to whom I won't pull the "oh how the mighty have fallen" line "no one likes you"...sooo
