The phrase "a weak father" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a father figure who lacks strength, authority, or assertiveness in parenting or family dynamics.
Example: "In the story, the protagonist struggles with the consequences of having a weak father who failed to provide guidance and support."
Alternatives: "an ineffective father" or "a feeble father".
"Sukkwan Island" is about the love of a powerless boy for a weak father.
All but one had – or saw themselves as having – that most Freudian of pairings, an overbearing mother and a weak father.
The film's biggest weakness is its failure to provide any explanation for Lars's behavior, unless you want to blame the cliché of an overbearing mother and a weak father.
As a novel, it reads like a morality tale about the dangers of extramarital sex and the inability of a weak father to control his family and his community.
Christopher ended up seeing an "ex-gay" California-based Christian reparative therapist, who told him that homosexuality had root causes – perhaps a weak father and a strong mother, rejection by classmates, or liking art but not sports.
And, it doesn't help that I am a weak father.
And there he was, this fearful, self-critical, self-pitying child, the son of a mean-spirited, discouraging mother, and of a passive, distant, weak father who had never protected him from her vicious tongue and violent outbursts.
Strindberg's Miss Julie is haunted by the ghosts of her parents: an emancipated but Draconian mother, long dead — who gave eccentric rein to her hatred of men by forcing the men on the family estate to do the women's work, while the women took on the men's roles — and a weak, suicidal father, who is an absent presence.
"For a discipline like media studies, he makes for a weak founding father because he was wrong so much of the time," said Mitchell Stephens, a professor of journalism at New York University and the author of a McLuhan-inspired book called "The Rise of the Word and the Fall of the Image," which came out last year.
Rodin was, she said, "the powerful male role model" he would have preferred to his own "rather weak father".
Henry's weak father, John II, was entirely under the control of his constable, Álvaro de Luna, who gave the young Henry a separate court at Segovia, hoping to control him.
