Fatherhood Struggles Quotes

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.

When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable, regardless of how he feels, how hard he tries, or whether he is a good guy. Almost by definition, he has become de-fathered.

Fatherhood is asking your son to make up a name rather than tell anybody who he is.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

A father is a man who fails every day.

Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.

Some guys didn't have fathers. Some guys grew up with great dads but the weight of fatherhood shifts onto their shoulders because they make millions now. Some guys are away from their kids or divorced. I'm letting them all know they aren't alone when it comes to fatherhood issues and to encourage them to make time for their kids.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to live in a house with a wife and two daughters is, without any doubt, going to go certifiably nuts.