Jim Anderson and Cliff Huxtable

Usage examples of dads.

If he had, it might have given children a chance to run away from him when he tried to trap them in his spare bedroom and pin them to the single bed with his fat gray-hair-sprouting belly while mums and dads drank coffee in the kitchen with his stick-insect purple-mottled bruised-and-battered wife.

Some of the kids, whose dads or brothers have been killed in the War, cry every morning.

This thing with our dads has got to me more than I thought and my mum always said I had an overactive imagination.