Editing Father (section)

==Terminology==

===Biological fathers===
[[File:Paternal bonding between father and newborn daughter.jpg|thumb|280px|alt=Father holding daughter in swaddling clothes|[[Paternal bond]]ing between a father and his newborn daughter]]
[[File:Father and son 27.jpg|thumb|280px|upright|Father and son]]
[[File:Isabel e Pedro II 1870.jpg|thumb|Emperor [[Pedro II of Brazil]] with his daughter [[Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil|Isabel, Princess Imperial]], {{Circa|1870}}. She acted as regent of the [[Empire of Brazil]] for three times during her father's absences abroad.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sciulo, Marília Mara|title=Princesa Isabel: 6 fatos para entender o papel da regente na história|url=https://revistagalileu.globo.com/Sociedade/Historia/noticia/2021/11/princesa-isabel-6-fatos-para-entender-o-papel-da-regente-na-historia.html|date=14 November 2021|language=pt|access-date=13 November 2022}}</ref>]]
* '''Baby Daddy'''{{spaced ndash}}a biological father who bears financial responsibility for a child, but with whom the mother has little or no contact.
* '''Birth father'''{{spaced ndash}}the biological father of a child who, due to adoption or parental separation, does not raise the child or cannot take care of one.
* '''Biological father'''{{spaced ndash}} or sometimes simply referred to as "Father" is the genetic father of a child.
* '''Posthumous father'''{{spaced ndash}}father died before children were born (or even conceived in the case of [[artificial insemination]]).
* '''Putative father'''{{spaced ndash}}unwed man whose legal relationship to a child has not been established but who is alleged to be or claims that he may be the biological father of a child.<ref name="CWIG2">{{cite news |author=Child Welfare Information Gateway |date=30 June 2010 |title=The Rights of Unmarried Fathers |work=U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |url=http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/laws_policies/statutes/putative.cfm |access-date=10 March 2023 |archive-date=5 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105215316/https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies/statutes/putative/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Bouvier |first1=John |title=Bouvier's Law Dictionary |date=1987 |publisher=The Boston Book Company |location=Boston}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lehman |first1=Jeffrey |title=West's Encyclopedia of American Law, Vol. 8 |last2=Phelps |first2=Shirelle |date=2005 |publisher=Thomson/Gale |isbn=9780787663742 |edition=2 |location=Detroit |page=192}}</ref>
* '''[[Sperm donor]]'''{{spaced ndash}}an anonymous or known biological father who provides his sperm to be used in artificial insemination or [[in vitro fertilisation]] in order to father a child for a third-party female. Also used as a slang term meaning "baby daddy".
* '''Surprise father'''{{spaced ndash}}where the men did not know that there was a child until possibly years afterward
* '''Teenage father/youthful father'''{{spaced ndash}}father who is still a teenager.

===Non-biological (social and legal relationship)===
* '''Adoptive father'''{{spaced ndash}}the father who has [[adopted]] a child
* '''[[Cuckolded]] father'''{{spaced ndash}}where the child is the product of the mother's [[adultery|adulterous relationship]]
* '''DI Dad'''{{spaced ndash}}social/legal father of children produced via Donor Insemination (where a donor's sperm were used to impregnate the DI Dad's partner)
* '''Father-in-law'''{{spaced ndash}}the father of one's spouse
* '''Foster father'''{{spaced ndash}}child is raised by a man who is not the biological or adoptive father
* '''Mother's partner'''{{spaced ndash}}assumption that current partner fills father role
* '''Mother's husband'''{{spaced ndash}}under some jurisdictions (e.g., in [[Civil Code of Quebec|Quebec civil law]]), if the mother is married to another man, the latter will be defined as the father
* '''Presumed father'''{{spaced ndash}}where a [[presumption of paternity]] has determined that a man is a child's father regardless of if he actually is or is not the biological father
* '''Social father'''{{spaced ndash}}where a man takes ''[[de facto]]'' responsibility for a child, such as caring for one who has been abandoned or orphaned (the child is known as a "child of the family" in English law)
* '''Stepfather'''{{spaced ndash}}a married non-biological father where the child is from a previous relationship

===Fatherhood defined by contact level===
* '''Absent father'''{{spaced ndash}}father who cannot or will not spend time with his child(ren)
* '''Second father'''{{spaced ndash}}a non-parent whose contact and support is robust enough that near parental bond occurs (often used for older male siblings who significantly aid in raising a child, sometimes for older men who took care of younger friends (only males) who have no families)
* '''[[Stay-at-home dad]]'''{{spaced ndash}}the male equivalent of a [[housewife]] with child, where his spouse is breadwinner
* '''Weekend/holiday father'''{{spaced ndash}}where child(ren) only stay(s) with father on weekends, holidays, etc.