Poor dad's navigated out of it (13)
I believe the answer is:
disadvantaged
'poor' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'dad's navigated out of it' is the wordplay.
'out of it' is an anagram indicator (out of it can mean confused or distracted).
'dads'+'navigated'='dadsnavigated'
'dadsnavigated' anagrammed gives 'DISADVANTAGED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for disadvantaged that I've seen before include "underprivileged" , "In deprived circumstances" , "Handicapped" , "In unfavourable circumstances" , "Socially or economically deprived" .)