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 didn't have my dad there and I had another mate who didn't have his father, and you kind of form your own little family and that's what gangs are, that's why you have so many gangs now because there are so many kids without fathers that they seek their own male bonding.
I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
I didn't have a father figure in the house.
The thing about living without a father if he's always gone is that it takes a long time to realize he isn't coming home.
I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.
My father wasn't around much. He made mistakes, but he had a very tough road.
There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.
Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'
Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.
As a kid, watching your dad leave, that's pretty powerful.
