This is also my opinion, so I think we agree, for I agree with the words you said and could have said myself and I think we are using the same meaning and intent with words.

The real question is the relationship healthy and mutually supportive. A 1000 upvotes, or something to this. But lets go meta, what is healthy and mutually supportive. What is healthy and mutually support depends on the father and son, but also depends on where the father is in his life, and where the son is in his life. It depends on the problems of the day, it depends on the environment and whether the son and father are both getting what they need from everyone else that is not the father or son, and so on.

Being a good father and being a good son is not about knowing all the answers, but being there.

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You brought up adoption, and surrogate fathers like step fathers.

Here is something for you to think about that most people do not realize. Peter Parker, Spiderman, is an orphan. His parents died when he was young. Yet Peter never lacked for anything for he had his (great) Aunt May and Uncle Ben as surrogate / adoptive parents.

Peter Parker understood father's day for the most part when Uncle Ben was alive, but sometimes people are bad sons and they forget things and get stuck on illusions and lies. The day that Uncle Ben died he told his uncle you are not my dad, he also was only thinking of his self and his pain and thus he did not stop the thief, who later shot Uncle Ben.

And in this act the wisdom of Uncle Ben suddenly came full circle and he was both haunted and saved via the earlier "Great Power comes Great Responsibility."

After all in this world everyone is an orphan, everyone is no longer connected to their parents after the umbilical cord is cut. Yet we are no longer connected a good society still pretends we are all connected as one, and we create relationships, families, friends, social safety nets, for everyone falls down, and everyone needs a mom or dad some of the time.

Well Peter Parker can't be Uncle Ben to the world, but the next best thing is to be Spiderman.

In effect Peter Parker is spiderman, not because he is a hero, but because Peter Parker is still connected to the soul of his father / uncle even beyond the illusion of death and life. Aka this scene from the Lion King.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_OMPrqhA_4

So I hope you had a good father's day, and remember whenever life kicks your ass, remember you are a good father, and you may now understand why you are good father, but the mere fact that you are trying is likely to mean you are going to having last effects on your son.

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Now lets get back to twitter. Dennis the Menace and George Everett Wilson, Sr (the grumpy old neighbor). In my mind Dennis is Twitter. Mostly bad, but sometimes he brings a deeper serenity to George Wilson's life, George thinks he knows what he wants, but is it really what he wants? Sometimes Dennis the Menace is good for George for the impish boy can help him see things he never notice the first time. And George Wilson is also good for Dennis for every boy needs a father, even if Dennis literally has a father, sometimes a boy needs a 2nd father.

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I repeat this with all the sincerity of the world, I am glad you enjoyed your Father's Day.