Fatherly Involvement Quotes

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

All Pro Dad is an organization that started down in Tampa in 1997. And it was just a group of us who felt like we weren't doing as good a job as our fathers did in connecting with kids and being there and being involved in their lives, working and coaching and spending all the time we had to. We just felt badly.

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had with him, if you add up the hours, was about two months. My father was a busy man... we had very few opportunities to really sit down and talk as father and son.

Dads have been increasingly hands-on for quite a while. And yet, we still insist on portraying dads as bumbling idiots.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.

My father was as involved as he could be. He was busy, but called me every day. He knew what was happening in school, and even came for my tennis matches.

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.

I have one regret: I wish I was a better father.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

If you really want to heal our communities, more men to step it up to take care of their children. Safe neighbors happen when fathers and mothers are at home.

The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy.

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

if we are honest with ourselves, we’ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.

It makes me bounce out of boxing, I put all my spare time into being a dad.

I just wanted my dad to be a part of my life, wanted him to continue to be there.