My ds is 7 nearly 8. We left when he was 2. He saw his dad every week with overnight contact for the first 3 months. Overnight was stopped due to welfare concerns with advice from solicitor and social services. He then had unsupervised contact alternate Saturdays / Sundays ( I work full time and ds was in nursery full time). This was stopped as again there were welfare concerns over where he was taking ds and also ds was not being fed lunch (packed lunch provided every week) and was coming home with bad nappy rash. So after 3rd birthday was on supervised contact via child centre. Again this was stopped as ex only turned up 6 times in 10 months. No contact except christmas / birthday presents once a year (birthday is around christmas) for 3 years then ex requested mediation. Mediation failed as he would not stick to agreements over 6 month period and since then there has been nothing... no christmas or birthday or any contact. He has got married and has other kids now. Ds now keeps telling me he wants "a proper dad". I tell him his dad still loves him in his own way but he has it in his mind now that mummy needs to find a boyfriend and get married so he can have a proper dad. I have never bad mouthed his dad or anything so just wondering if anyone else has had the same or can advise??