Is it better to have an absent father, a paper father or an abusive father?

When it comes to fathers many people have gotten vastly different father experiences. I have not seen my father since I was 5yr or 6yr old. I wonder what my life would have been if he would have stayed around. Some people I know had fathers that was there only they weren’t there mentally or in a support capacity; they were there basically in body only and officially in documents. Other had fathers that not only were there physically but mentally, verbally, or physically abusive. I wondered which was the worse type of father to have around one that was gone completely, one that was around but to no affect really good or bad, or one who negative acts and behavior would make everyday a day of dread?