Absent Parents Quotes

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

I know what I wanna be and what I don't wanna be, which is an absent parent. I wanna be hands-on.

I was like any other inner-city kid with a chip on his shoulder because his daddy and his mommy wasn't together.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.

I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.

When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

My characters are often without a significant parental figure.

My friends were raised by their maids. They didn't see their fathers, who used to travel for work, and there were facades of family vacations. I have grown up to be completely intolerant of fake relationships. That's because of how my parents were.

My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.

I worked a variety of jobs in retail and at coffee shops all through high school. And, though I was surrounded by people who cared about me, part of me ached with every accomplishment, because my parents weren't there to share my joy.

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.

It is, of course, traditional in children's literature to get rid of the parents.

And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about.

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high school.

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

During my last days at Florida State, 65 to 70 percent of my boys did not have a daddy at home. They're raised by mommas. Thank God for them mommas, or grandmommas. Or big sister or aunt.

My parents ... are more like cats. They accidentally had a litter of kittens, and then emotionally moved on to whatever ball of yarn rolled past their line of sight.