Absentee Parent Quotes

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.'

I've not seen my two girls play high school sports.

I never helped my kids. I was working too hard. My kids had to be responsible for themselves.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

My kids suffered because I wasn't home enough.

My father was driven, active and always busy. We didn't see that much of him, although he never went far away or stayed overnight anywhere.