Am I The Only One With A Good Father?

I put this in Random because I couldn’t find any other category it fit into.
I have a great relationship with my father. We often go to the movies and shopping and many other events. As a baby he was my primary caretaker as my mother was attending nursing school at the time. This may be part of the reason I have such an emotional attachment to him. He was also a teacher at my high school. It had it’s down sides like he knew about everything that happened there. But it was also good as I was constantly bullied and sent to the office crying. He was there to calm me down.
But it often seems to me that I’m the only one with this sort of relationship with my father. All my friends have negative feelings towards their fathers. In most cases, I don’t blame them as they really did have crappy dads.
Then in popular culture we usually see dads like Homer Simpson. I won’t deny I enjoy these shows due to their humor but why can’t we get some good fathers on TV. A few years ago there was a show called Raising Dad which got canceled after one season. I watched it because it was about a girl whose father was a teacher at her school. But it was disappointing as the father kept telling embarrassing stories about his daughter to the class. Completely unrealistic.

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