There are no fathers in the Black home. You know when/why dad comes back? You know immediately because his son has the clubhouse boy sew "Jr." onto the back of every in' uniform he has.
White fathers ain't much better, if at all because there is more of 'em. They get tired of their wife and their children, so, they divorce them and start another family up with a prettier wife who ain't been thru child-birth 3 times, yet---then they have 3 children with the fresh wife. And then about late '50's he'll pay kids off/maybe, leave the no longer pretty wife where he found her and find a girl about one of his daughter's age and carry on.