Damian Wayne is the Son of Batman, and he was born to Talia Al Ghul and Bruce Wayne after a romantic entanglement between them. He was raised by a killer assassin and dropped off in Batman's lap to disrupt his work, and it was successful. He is an aggressive and hyperviolent child, who, in the non-canon Injustice comics, fought and killed Dick Grayson.
Despite this, Bruce was still technically his father, and it was his responsibility to raise him. But he wasn't always a good father. After all, he dresses up as a bat to scare his enemies while he fights criminals and throws them in jail, that's not exactly the epitome of fatherhood.
10 GREAT: Won't Kill Anyone
After seeing his own family gunned down in front of him, Bruce Wayne vowed to never take another life. And that's a difficult thing to manage when all of the villains and bad guys you put away sometimes come back into the streets to do more harm. His son, Damian, learned to fight in the same place Bruce did, in the League of Assassins.
Unlike Bruce, however, Damian had no qualms about taking the life of someone else. He was raised to assassinate Batman, and that didn't always plan out because Bruce had been fighting against far greater foes than Damian Wayne.
9 GREAT: Loves His Family
Bruce Wayne lost a lot of close people in his life, and despite often saying that he prefers to work alone, he has a massive Bat Family. There's the loyal butler, Alfred, his five Robins, Dick Grayson, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Jason Todd and Damian Wayne.
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There's Commissioner Gordon, who always sided with Batman whenever things got hairy, and his daughter, Barbara Gordon became the iconic character, Batgirl. After losing her legs, she became Oracle, and Bruce Wayne would fight tooth and nail for every single one of them. Therein lies the lesson for young Damian, who he eventually learns to respect.
8 GREAT: Brought Him Back From The Dead
Unfortunately, despite Batman's best efforts, he was unable to properly defend his son at all times. The tragedy that resulted in that was the loss of Damian's life. It happened during the conflict where Damian's mother, Thalia Al Ghul, tried to take down the Batman.
In this conflict, young Damian had to fight off multiple clones of himself, which he was unable to do. He was stabbed, and therefore brought close to death. Bruce Wayne dabbed in dark magic and the powers of the Lazarus Pit to bring his son back to life. Even Death itself could not stop Bruce Wayne.
7 GREAT: Constantly Forgives Damian
Damian has had more than his fair share of mistakes and bad decisions, but it's not entirely his fault. He was raised by his mother for the sole reason to disrupt his father's work and then kill him. Because of this, he's constantly tried to undermine Batman, hurt him somehow, and in one of the comics, even attacked and killed Dick Grayson, AKA Nightwing.
But despite all of his flaws, Bruce Wayne never once condemned him forever. He forgave him, after he made Damian do something that redeemed himself. After all, mistakes are a part of maturing, and Bruce himself made many before becoming the Bat.
6 GREAT: Got Titus For Him
When Damian first started living with Bruce, he felt threatened by all the other Robins. In the League Of Assassins, he was trained to take on every rival and destroy them so that he could be the only one left. As a result, even when he was with Bruce, Damian didn't have any friends or people to talk to.
When his father saw this, he tried to remedy it by getting him a friend, a hound dog known as Titus. Before the events of Flashpoint, Batman had a Bat-Hound named Ace, but post Flashpoint, the recent version of the Bat-Hound is none other than Titus himself.
5 NOT GREAT: Puts Him In Danger
Damian is more than well equipped to defend himself against the average threat, but because of his aggressive nature, he finds himself in more trouble than most. And that's not a good thing for Bruce Wayne to allow as the father. It should be his highest priority that he make sure that Damian is not in constant danger, but that's how it is.
Because of this, Damian has hurt himself more times than you can count, requiring extensive operations to be brought back to full health. There was one time when he was fighting a being made out of his own DNA, and there was no recovery from that.
4 NOT GREAT: Has Hurt Damian Himself
There are times when Damian disobeys a direct order from Bruce during their nightly outings, and that often results in a heated confrontation between father and son. And because they're both aggressive individuals, they end up fighting more often than not. They hit each other, and while Damian is sometimes prepared to take lethal actions against his own father, Bruce isn't willing to do the same to his son. And he ends up hitting him a few times or knocking him out and leaving, if he wins. Otherwise Damian runs off to do whatever he feels like doing, and Bruce owns up to that responsibility.
3 NOT GREAT: Let Damian Die
Because of his lifestyle as the Batman, he's constantly doing dangerous things. Talia Al Ghul, the daughter of Ra'as Al Ghul, and mother of Damian once attacked Bruce Wayne to finally put an end to his career. Because Damian had eventually sided with Batman with his decisions and wanted to be with his father, he picked Bruce over Talia.
This enraged his mother, who sent clones created out of Damian's DNA to attack him. He suffered a dangerous wound that eventually killed him, and Bruce wasn't there to defend himself. He blames his own life and his own choices for the loss of his son.
2 NOT GREAT: Allowed Him To Join The Teen Titans
When Damian became too much to handle or was starting to affect Bruce's life as Batman in Gotham city, he shipped him off to join the Teen Titans. It was the equivalent of sending your child off to boarding school because you're too busy with work to raise him, and that's exactly what Bruce did.
While he was a member of the Teen Titans, he started by completely messing up everyone else's vibe and the way they got their superhero work done, before eventually acclimating to the change. Nevertheless, Bruce had made the decision to not raise him himself, and that's not what a good father does.
1 NOT GREAT: Never Bruce Wayne, Always Batman
Damian Wayne is the son of Bruce Wayne, also known as Batman. It is perhaps Bruce's greatest flaw as a father because he was always Batman around his son, and never actually Bruce Wayne. Damian was the son of a billionaire who was raised in a hostile and aggressive environment, and his father only showed the side of him that was equally violent and hostile.
A good father wouldn't worry about looking human, or showing his son what it means to be a kid. Bruce Wayne didn't look after Damian Wayne, Batman did, and that's not good. It's dishonest, and perhaps his greatest flaw.