Why bother? Why would you waste your time, energy, and mentality over trying to make someone do something they are SUPPOSED to do? Sorry if my answer is a bit harsh. HUGS.

A lot of times it really is for the best. My daughters dad isn't a deadbeat, he does love his daughters. He's a critic! Corrective critiasism left and right.
This man does not have the will power to understand her when she's scripting. That's due to denial/pride.
Two weeks ago, she was trying to read a comic that she put together with him and her social worker. In this comic she's letting us see that she realizes now why mom and dad will never get back together.
Once she read over an important/brutial factor that made her she the light his guard went right up. Never allowed her to finish her statement!!! Instead, corrective criticism again. I was furious!!!!
A lot of dads that are critics are better off keeping their distance, just like deadbeat dads. They really do so much damn damage, and simply don't even realize it.

It's sad but it really does have to be something he wants to do in order to get any positive results. Otherwise it's just going to be fake, a chore. One that your child will since, notice right off the bat. And you will be the one dealing with the aftermath. Plus your child's esteem will be knocked down.
Actually right now I have an issue with something my children's dad does. He acts embarrassed of Gabbys asd. Plus he calls my older daughter Sable fat. Which is not true! Anyway I'm constantly reassuring my girls their father means well, just has an awful way of expressing it.
Sometimes keeping the distance is very wise!

Oh @A MyAutismTeam Member you don't know how much I do wish my soon to be ex was outa the picture. Mental/verbal/physical abuse is horrid! It changes a woman so much.
Even just the way we feel about ourselves. And even entitlement. (Going through divorce, assets)
But back to you, everything happens for a reason.

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Unfortunately you can't legally make someone be a good father. And truthfully, the child is better off not having someone around who is being forced to do something they don't want to do. Some men just don't have the nurturing gene. Hindsight is 20/20. I surely would have chosen a different father for my children if I had known then what I know now, but then my children wouldn't be who they are.