{"id":31611,"date":"2025-03-09T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmerdale-insider.com\/?p=31611"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:16:49","slug":"emmerdales-bad-dads-cain-mackenzie-marlon-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tvguide.co.uk\/emmerdale-insider\/news\/emmerdales-bad-dads-cain-mackenzie-marlon-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmerdale’s bad dads from Cain to Mackenzie and Marlon – who’s the worst of the lot?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emmerdale\u2019s full of bad dads! Marlon is continuing to spiral<\/a> next week as he struggles to deal with April\u2019s return home after her ordeal on the streets. Marlon being Marlon, however, means he\u2019s not listening to his daughter\u2019s torment calmly and working out what she needs to make things better.<\/p>

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Oh no.<\/p>\n

Instead he\u2019s following her, shouting at her, ignoring what she says, sleeping downstairs with the door locked so she can\u2019t leave the house and generally making her life so miserable that we\u2019re pretty sure she\u2019ll scarper again at the first opportunity.<\/p>\n

Great fathering, Marlon. Smashing.<\/p>

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But when it comes to dads in Emmerdale, Marlon\u2019s not even the worst of them. In fact, it\u2019s actually easier to list the dads doing a good job in the village \u2013 Paddy, Billy<\/a> \u2013 than the ones who are pretty rubbish.<\/p>

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