I agree. The same is true if a mother behaves hatefully. The message is: How can anyone love me if I am unworthy even of my mother's love, or my father's love?
Apologies are cheap after the parent has used the child for an emotional toilet and has just taken a big dump.
I know very few screwed up women who didn’t have bad relationships with their dads if there was a dad at all.
That’s why if a woman winds up without a husband or father for her child there needs to be a man in that child’s life. Too many women have the no man needed mantra.
My best friend’s father died when she was little and her mother never remarried. Her mother’s brother was the Dad in her life. Took her to daddy daughter events. Gave her away at her wedding. Is who her kids call grandpa.