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Dad is not always what [he] seems.

"I hope they know I love them," said a Nebraska father of nine. "I hope their future is better without me around them" continued the man who lost his wife, quit his job to take care of his children and, overwhelmed, abandoned the kids (five boys and four girls between 1 and 17) under a "safe haven" law.

And what is there to think about a father scraping a living out in the jungle with his three boys by stealing scrap who takes off with police in pursuit, but leaves the his boys to the law?

Finally, don't be confused. D.A.D. was not begun as a musical band of fathers. It was originally Disneyland After Dark, but had to change its name under threat of lawsuit. Which doesn't mean the four guys haven't morphed into fathers, just that like every man they didn't start out that way and the idea of "father" may not be a completely accurate description of everything they are and mean to their kids.

Even Notorious Dad may not be what you think: