Categories
- Baby Daddy – slang term for several of the below categories. Denotes a natural father; implies that he is not married to the natural mother of the child, bears financial responsibility, may or may not imply other parental responsibilities, to includes the absent father (see below).
- Birth father – the biological father of a child who, due to adoption or parental separation, does not raise the child or cannot take care of one.
- Natural/biological father – the most common category: child product of man and woman
- Non-parental father – unmarried father whose name does not appear on child's birth certificate: does not have legal responsibility but continues to have financial responsibility (UK)
- Posthumous father – father died before children were born (or even conceived in the case of artificial insemination)
- Sperm donor – the natural/biological father of the child but the man does not have legal or financial responsibility if procedure conducted through licensed clinics
- Surprise father – where the men did not know that there was a child until possibly years afterward
- Teenage father/youthful father – associated with teenage sexual intercourse
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