Unlike Scout and Jem, Dill lacks the security of family love. He is unwanted and unloved by his parents:
"They do get on a lot better without me, I cannot help them any." As Francis, another Finch from the novel, says, "He hasn't got a home,
he just gets passed around from relative to relative."
Dill is described as not having a father; he doesn't know where he lives or when he'll come back, if he does.