Bad Dads In Christmas Movies: A Brief Retrospective
Miracle on 34th St.
In the end, Natalie Wood’s character gets two solid, positive father figures in the form of Kris Kringle and her mom’s new love interest, Mr. Gailey, but much of the early plot is driven by her disillusionment, the direct result of a nasty divorce between her parents. Her biological father is nowhere to be seen, and his whereabouts and involvement in her life are never explained (though assumed to be negligible).