Appreciate the answer 3 <| sep |> Freeze mage takes skill ? O . o <| sep |> but sometimes the other parent mother or father just walks away . Mine did . We worked opposite shits to cut down a little on daycare costs . I worked 1 st shift and she worked 2 nd . She would take the kids to daycare and drop them off and i would pick them up 23 hours later on my way home . When kids were 3 yo and 13 months old , one day she dropped them off . I picked them up as usual and she just never came home from work . It was months before i saw her again . We proceed to go to court , I get custody , she gets visitation . That lasted about 3 months then we didn ' t see her again for almost 5 years . They are 25 and 23 now and still barely interact with their mother .