Richard Williams groomed his tennis daughters, Venus and Serena, from the time they were toddlers. They practiced returning hundreds of volleys, often into the wee hours. He was proud of their achievements, but regretted pushing them into tennis instead of a more lucrative sport. For another bad dad who saw fatherhood as a means to get rich, read The Great Stork Derby, based on an actual contest in which a husband pressures his wife to have babies for cash and, fifty years later, learns the true meaning of fatherhood. Read more about the book in NOVELS.
