History Main / NoFathersAllowed

* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': Among the [[SpaceElves Loroi]], men make up only a small portion of the total population and live in isolated, semi-monastic communities, and their interactions with the outside world are largely limited to mating encounters. Loroi women typically "meet" with any given man only once--Strong attachments to mating partners are frowned upon in Loroi society--and afterward return to their families to go through pregnancy and birth their child. Daughters are reared by their mothers, aunts and other female relatives, while the rare sons are reared in the cloistered male societies. Either way, fathers rarely if ever meet their children.

* Barabels in ''{{Franchise/StarWarsLegends}}''. Female Barabels mate with 3-4 males each before laying eggs, and the young don’t know who their dads are, let alone being raised by them.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Inverted with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]]. Mothers are expected to care for the infants. Once a child is old enough to walk, the father is expected to step in and do the bulk of rearing and training them, to the point where "deadbeat dad" is one of their worst insults.

* Barabels in ''{{Franchise/StarWarsLegends''. Female Barabels mate with 3-4 males each before laying eggs, and the young don’t know who their dads are, let alone being raised by them.

* When an animal exhibits parental care, it's usually maternal. 95% of mammals have exclusive maternal care. Birds are unique for being a class of animals that almost uniformly show biparental care (equal roles for males and females in parenting). As for humans, they are unique not just among mammals but also animals in mostly having fathers who not only nurture their children, but are around throughout their lives.

* When an animal exhibits parental care, it's usually maternal. 95% of mammals have exclusive maternal care. Birds are unique for being a class of animals that almost uniformly show biparental care (equal roles for males and females in parenting). As for humans, they are unique not just among mammals but also animals in mostly having fathers who not only nurture their children, but be around throughout their lives.

* When an animal exhibits parental care, it's usually maternal. 5% of mammals have exclusive maternal care. Birds are unique for being a class of animals that almost uniformly show biparental care (equal roles for males and females in parenting). As for humans, they are unique not just among mammals but also animals in mostly having fathers who not only nurture their children, but be around throughout their lives.

* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': Among the [[SpaceElves Loroi]], men make up only a small portion of the total population and live in isolated, semi-monastic communities, and their interactions with the outside world are largely limited to mating encounters. Loroi women typically "meet" with any given man only once — strong attachments to mating partners are frowned upon in Loroi society — and afterward return to their families to go through pregnancy and birth their child. Daughters are reared by their mothers, aunts and other female relatives, while the rare sons are reared in the cloistered male societies. Either way, fathers rarely if ever meet their children.

In this society, fathers are not expected to have a bond with their children. Everyone has a DisappearedDad. Maybe the kids are expected to be reared by only their mother her family. Often times, this overlaps with LadyLand and/or MamasBabyPapasMaybe.

* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'': Pufftail's daughter Tabitha is unusual in that she's close to him. Most cats don't know their fathers. Tabitha's own son Kitchener was the result of a short fling with an unnamed roaming tom. Pufftail himself says that he doesn't understand why humans seem so obsessed with their adult children. To him, it's ''unnatural'' for parents to care about or even think much about their offspring. He likely has hundreds of children but doesn't care to meet them. Pufftail is close to Tabitha because she's different from the others. Pufftail loves Tabitha so much because [[spoiler:she is [[StrongFamilyResemblance the spitting image]] of her MissingMom, Pufftail's [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]] Tammy]].

* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'': Pufftail's daughter Tabitha is unusual in that she's close to him. Most cats don't know their fathers. Tabitha's own son Kitchener was the result of a short fling with an unnamed roaming tom. Pufftail himself says that he doesn't understand why humans seem so obsessed with their adult children. To him, it's ''unnatural'' for parents to care about or even think much about their offspring. He likely has hundreds of children but doesn't care to meet them. Pufftail is close to Tabitha because she's different from the others. Pufftail loves Tabitha so much because [[spoiler:she is [[StrongFamilyResemblance the spiting image]] of her MissingMom, Pufftail's [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]] Tammy]].

* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'': Pufftail's daughter Tabitha is unusual in that she's close to him. Most cats don't know their fathers. Tabitha's own son Kitcher was the result of a short fling with an unnamed roaming tom. Pufftail himself says that he doesn't understand why humans seem so obsessed with their adult children. To him, it's ''unnatural'' for parents to care about or even think much about their offspring. He likely has hundreds of children but doesn't care to meet them. Pufftail is close to Tabitha because she's different from the others. Pufftail loves Tabitha so much because [[spoiler:she is [[StrongFamilyResemblance the spiting image]] of her MissingMom, Pufftail's [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]] Tammy]].

* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'': Pufftail's daughter Tabitha is unusual in that she's close to him. Most cats don't know their fathers. Tabitha's own son Kitcher was the result of a short fling with an unnamed roaming tom. Pufftail himself says that he doesn't understand why humans seem so obsessed with their adult children. To him, it's ''unnatural'' for parents to care about or even think much about their offspring. He likely has hundreds of children but doesn't care to meet them. Pufftail is close to Tabitha because she's different from the others.

* Deconstructed in ''{{Disney/Bambi}}'' and ''Disney/BambiII''. Like in the original novel, the Great Prince lives mostly in seclusion, watching the herd from afar. When his mate is killed by a hunter, he is wary about rearing Bambi himself since the general order of things is that he doesn't care for the young. As time passes, however, he grows a bond with Bambi and relents.

** ''ComicBook/Wonder Woman2011 (ComicBook/New52)'': The titular protagonist is one of many children on Themyscira. The Amazons [[DoesNotLikeMen hate men]], but they kidnap men who cross near their island, [[ChildByRape reproduce with them]], and then kill them (and [[OffingOnesOffspring their sons]] if a baby is born male).

* The witches in ''Anime/TweenyWitches'' are reared in the [[LadyLand Witch Realm]] away from their warlock fathers.

** ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|2011}} (ComicBook/New52)'': The titular protagonist is one of many children on Themyscira. The Amazons [[DoesNotLikeMen hate men]], but they kidnap men who cross near their island, [[ChildByRape reproduce with them]], and then kill them (and [[OffingOnesOffspring their sons]] if a baby is born male).

* Deconstructed in ''{{Disney/Bambi}}'' and ''Disney/BambiII''. Like in the original novel, the Great Prince lives mostly in seclusion, watching the herd from afar. When his mate is killed by a hunter, he is wary about rearing Bambi himself since general order of things is that he doesn't care for the young. As time passes, however, he grows a bond with Bambi and relents.

* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'':Pufftail's daughter Tabitha is unusual in that she's close to him. Most cats don't know their fathers. Tabitha's own son Kitcher was the result of a short fling with an unnamed roaming tom. Pufftail himself says that he doesn't understand why humans seem so obsessed with their adult children. To him, it's ''unnatural'' for parents to care about, or even think much about, their offspring. He likely has hundreds of children but doesn't care to meet them. Pufftail is close to Tabitha because she's different from the others.

* The Efrosians in the Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse are described this way - children are raised solely by their mother, and their culture has no concept or word for "father". The closest analogue according to the UniversalTranslator is "seed-donor".

* ''Literature/EarthsChildren'': All the cultures portrayed in the books have no concept of fatherhood, not realizing there's a connection between having sex and reproduction. While some do notice a resemblance between certain men and children, this is ascribed to their "spirit" affecting them. Thus a man will refer to one as the "child of their spirit", but this isn't viewed as a biological connection. Because of this, their sisters' children are a man's heirs, not any child whom their mate has. Children refer to their mother's mate as "the man of my hearth", though usually they have the ''emotional'' relationship a father would. However, in some cases this may [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe not be their birth father]] anyway, since sexual exclusivity isn't strictly enforced due to the aforementioned lack of knowledge that paternity exists (though a person's mate may be hurt if they have sex with another). Ayla realizes that men are needed to produce children, however, as a result of her observations. Despite initial skepticism, she eventually convinces people it's true and the series makes clear this will profoundly change culture into what is normal now.

* Zigzagged in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS04E21TheMuse The Muse]]". There is an alien species called the Tavnians that has a society where the girls are only reared by their mothers, but on the other hand, the boys are only reared by their fathers. In fact, nobody's told the other sex exists until their adolescence.
* In the "Slice Girls" episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', a single gender society of Amazonian women sustains itself by having sex with men they meet in bars. They intentionally have unprotected sex in order to get pregnant and then leave with no intention of informing the fathers. When the children, who are always female, are ready to be inducted as a full member of society, their rite of passage is to go back and murder their unsuspecting biological fathers.

* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': Among the [[SpaceElves Loroi]], men make up only a small portion of the total population and live in isolated, semi-monastic communities, and their interactions with the outside world are largely limited to mating encounters. Loroi women typically "meet" with any given man only once — strong attachments to mating partners are frowned upon in Loroi society — and afterwards return to their families to go through pregnancy and birth their child. Daughters are reared by their mothers, aunts and other female relatives, while the rare sons are reared in the cloistered male societies. Either way, fathers rarely if ever meet their children.

** ComicBook/New52: The titular protagonist is one of many children on Themyscira. The Amazons [[DoesNotLikeMen hate men]], but they kidnap men who cross near their island, [[ChildByRape reproduce with them]], and then kill them (and [[OffingOnesOffspring their sons]] if a baby is born male).

* Zigzagged in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. There is an alien species that has a society where the girls are only reared by their mothers, but on the other hand, the boys are only reared by their fathers. In fact, nobody's told the other sex exists until their adolescence.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' introduced the Bana as a faction of antagonistic cruel misandrist Amazons who had perpetuated their line by kidnapping men and keeping them in breeding stalls before murdering them as they did not have the same immortality as the Themyscirans.

* Implied in ''Literature/CatPack'' as a FurryReminder. Carlotta has kittens, and the other cats want to be their step-father, but no one ever brings up the kittens ''biological'' father.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** Oost-Ruusan Jedi take their conscripts from the cradle and rear them in creches. They either made Padawan status or are thrown into the Service Corps by their early teens.
** Inverted with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]]. Mothers are expected to care for the infants. Once a child is old enough to walk, the father is expected to step in and do the bulk of rearing and training them, to the point where "deadbeat dad" is one of their worst insults.

* Zigzagged in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. There are an alien species that has a society where the girls are only reared by their mothers, but on the other hand, the boys are only reared by their fathers. In fact, nobody's told the other sex exists until their adolescence.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Tau couplings are determined via genetic screening and education is done by the state according to caste, so parental intervention is not actually required. That said, many Tau take an interest in their offspring's achievements without it being seen as contrary to the Greater Good.
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* Gender-neutral version in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}''. The {{P|eopleOfHairColor}}latinum caste of Alderode rears its children communally in villages and strongly stigmatizes parents getting attached to their children. Justified because the Plats [[YourDaysAreNumbered die at age 30]], so kids are guaranteed to be orphaned in their teens and need a broader support network.

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* The Air Nomads in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' are reared by monks, not their parents. Aang does, however, develop a close relationship with Monk Gyatso, who acts as a father figure towards him. This is referenced in an early episode when Zuko mentions his father but then claims that Aang wouldn't understand as the Air Nomads never know their fathers.
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* Although they're never taken to the extreme, among indigenous peoples of Oceania, it is customary for the fathers to let the women rear the children almost exclusively.

In this society, fathers are not expected to have a bond with their children. Everyone has a DisappearedDad. Maybe the kids are expected to be reared by only their mother, maybe they're RaisedByTheCommunity or maybe they're not reared by any adults at all. Often times, this overlaps with LadyLand and/or MamasBabyPapasMaybe.

Compare HandsOffParenting, GlorifiedSpermDonor, and DisappearedDad. See also NoBloodTies.

* The Efrosians in the StarTrekNovelVerse are described this way - children are raised solely by their mother, and their culture has no concept or word for "father". The closest analogue according to the UniversalTranslator is "seed-donor".

->Tabitha loved her father. She took him for granted. She did not realize how unusual it was for a cat to know their father.

In this society, fathers are not expected to have a bond with their children. Everyone has a DisappearedDad. Maybe the kids are expected to be raised by only their mother, maybe they're RaisedByTheCommunity or maybe they're not raised by any adults at all. Often times, this overlaps with LadyLand and/or MamasBabyPapasMaybe.

* The witches in ''Anime/TweenyWitches'' are raised in the [[LadyLand Witch Realm]] away from their warlock fathers.

* In the French comic ''Donjon'', male dragons are not supposed to see their own children (doing so is a serious crime against their religion). After Marvin does so anyway, he willingly blinds himself then slaughters the dragons exiling him. Years later, he meets one of his friends and posits that the law was set up by dragons who didn't want any of the responsibilities of parenting.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Spiderman}}'' story where Toxin was introduced, the story opens with Venom and Carnage arguing about what to do with Carnage's incoming offspring (it's complicated, just go with it). Carnage wants to kill it, Venom wants to take it from Carnage and raise the infant symbiote himself. The one point they can agree on is that a "loving" relationship between a father and his direct offspring is against the natural order of their kind. Whether this is actually part of symbiote "culture" or a result of the fact the hosts of said symbiotes are batpoop insane is unclear.
* Franchise/WonderWoman:

* In ''Fanfic/WarriorsRedux'', fathers are optional. Queens raise their kits together and don't need to disclose their kits fathers. It's an OpenSecret that [=ThunderClan=] cats often breed with pets in order to avoid RoyalInbreeding.

* Deconstructed in ''{{Disney/Bambi}}'' and ''Disney/BambiII''. Like in the original novel, the Great Prince lives mostly in seclusion, watching the herd from afar. When his mate is killed by a hunter, he is wary about raising Bambi himself since general order of things is that he doesn't care for the young. As time passes, however, he grows a bond with Bambi and relents.

* ''Literature/{{Hainish}}'': In "Solitude", the society of Eleven-Soro has collapsed to an effectively neolithic level following a massive civilizational collapse. Not only fathers are not expected to raise their children, but they are not expected to have any contact with women outside of reproduction -- the women live in "circles", small circular villages home to women who never directly interact with one another and to their children, while the men live hermit-like lives alone or in pairs (implied to be homosexual relationships). Boys above a certain age are driven out of the circles, at which point they band together with other boys until adulthood, roving in groups until they reach adulthood and set off on their own. After that, women only seek men out when they wish to have children, and the men have no further interactions with the children.

--> "I didn't know wi... your people had fathers." said Cassie. "You all seem to be girls." The cleric blushed with embarrassment.
-->"Oh, we got fathers," said Bianca. "We just don't have much to do with them. Our moms pick guys with good magic backgrounds, have us, and then they're gone."

* Zigzagged in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. There are an alien species that has a society where the girls are only raised by their mothers, but on the other hand, the boys are only raised by their fathers. In fact, nobody's told the other sex exists until their adolescence.

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* In some myths, the Amazons were believed to reproduce through an arrangement with an all-male tribe living near their lands (Myth/ClassicalMythology named these people the Gargareans, while during the Age of Exploration the supposed Amazons of Guyana were described as having a similar arrangement with an unnamed Guyanan tribe). Once a year, the two peoples would meet and attend to business, after which they would separate again. During each meeting, the Amazons would deliver any sons conceived in the last year's meeting to the men's tribe, and keep the daughters. The girls would then be raised as Amazons with no input from their fathers; the sons, in an inversion, would be raised in the all-male tribe with no input from their mothers.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': Among the [[SpaceElves Loroi]], men make up only a small portion of the total population and live in isolated, semi-monastic communities, and their interactions with the outside world are largely limited to mating encounters. Loroi women typically "meet" with any given man only once — strong attachments to mating partners are frowned upon in Loroi society — and afterwards return to their families to go through pregnancy and birth their child. Daughters are raised by their mothers, aunts and other female relatives, while the rare sons are raised in the cloistered male societies. Either way, fathers rarely if ever meet their children.
* Gender-neutral version in ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}''. The {{P|eopleOfHairColor}}latinum caste of Alderode raises its children communally in villages and strongly stigmatizes parents getting attached to their children. Justified because the Plats [[YourDaysAreNumbered die at age 30]], so kids are guaranteed to be orphaned in their teens and need a broader support network.

* The Air Nomads in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' are raised by monks, not their parents. Aang does, however, develop a close relationship with Monk Gyatso, who acts as a father figure towards him. This is referenced in an early episode when Zuko mentions his father but then claims that Aang wouldn't understand as the Air Nomads never know their fathers.

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* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** Oost-Ruusan Jedi take their conscripts from the cradle and raise them in creches. They either made Padawan status or are thrown into the Service Corps by their early teens.
** Inverted with the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]]. Mothers are expected to care for the infants. Once a child is old enough to walk, the father is expected to step in and do the bulk of raising and training them, to the point where "deadbeat dad" is one of their worst insults.
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* Although they're never taken to the extreme, among indigenous peoples of Oceania, it is customary for the fathers to let the women raise the children almost exclusively.
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'': In Sangheili culture, children are typically not told who their fathers are, so as to discourage favoritism and over-dependence. They may be tutored by an "uncle" who sometimes actually is their father. This system is tricky to maintain, and Serin Osman points out in ''Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar'' that the adult Sangheili must know who their offspring are to prevent inbreeding. A few exceptions exist; Ussans in ''Literature/HaloBrokenCircle'' and Juranai in ''Literature/HaloShadowOfIntent'' are Sangheili clans who break from tradition due to living in remote locations.
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