of course, by the law, father is a father anyway. (if he didn't lose this right by government). The problem is that oftenly we have situation when Russian father doesn't want to communicate with his child when relations with a mother is broken. Any child needs both parents, but after divorcing, fathers start to ignore their children, unfortunately. not everyone, but the most of them. It hurts children. So, if the father ignores his child, why he would like to visit him later, when he lives in different country already?