Absent Parenting Quotes

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.

I'm going to be in another city when my kids are teenagers. I'll be like, 'Give me a call when you're done with all that.'

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.

My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.

We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory.

Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever.

Growing up without my parents by my side is a weight I still carry today.

One of my major regrets was that period in my life where I wasn't present in my kids' life. I was in another world.

I have three children, each of whom is having an idyllic childhood, probably because I have been at the office the entire time.

I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there.

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

I rarely see my family; my older brother, Peter, has twins - I was not there on the day of their birth or for any of their birthdays.

I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.