Do men just give up on their children

[HollyIvy89]

Ex is re married and having baby with new partner. Unplanned. Both older than most to start again.
He has said to our child I’ll never take you to a competition again for their sport now I’m having a new child. Do men just generally just give up that easily on their ‘original’ kids? Is it that easy for them to ‘move on’ and relinquish responsibilities to do with their other children?

I had a colleague and one day asked him if he had children. He replied "Not this time". I find that unbelievable though I never met my own father so perhaps I shouldn't have been so surprised.

I can't speak for all men but even if I could I would probably be quite negative because of my perception of men growing up.

But of course you absolutely get deadbeat who don't give a damm that they created a child and are happy to move on to the next woman without a care in the world.

But you will also get those despite a relationship breakdown will do anything to show that child how much they are wanted.

Me personally moving out of the family home was one of the toughest decisions I ever made, but I was determined to show my son that nothing has changed, I still love him just as much as I did having him from Friday until Morning is always the absolute highlight of my week no other person matters as much as him.

Sadly this isn't the same as some men, I've tried to be as positive as I can 😀

My dad was never in my life but he was there for my half siblings, really great dad to them from what I seen but he married his short term girlfriend on his death bed and left her every penny and my poor siblings nothing.

My step-dad, who was in my life since I was a baby, walked away when I was 15 and took nothing to do with me. He was great with my sibling, his biological child and the other biological child he had (both now adults)... until recently when he met a new woman and has dropped both children like a hot stone 🤔.

My view on fathers is clearly tainted. My DH is amazing, great husband and father. Do I think he would continue to be great if it weren't for us all living together? No.

My own father left my mum when I was 5, I never saw him again. I did keep in touch tiĺ I was a teenager, kids don't hold grudges, but when I was 17 and working in a holiday camp, he said he would visit, I left before he came. He was just a stranger by this time. I felt nothing when he died a couple of weeks before his first grandson was born.
My husband has been a brilliant dad.

They do. And then they even give up on the new one. It’s disgusting.