I have no worthwhile memories of my father, therefore no idea of what a father's role should be.
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
There's a lot of single black women who did the best that they could and that's a beautiful thing, but they don't know how necessary a father is in a kid's life and how much guys miss that deep down inside.
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.
I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?
My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy... I loved it then, because it filled a great void.
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.
One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.
I know there are a lot of kids who aren't lucky enough to have a father figure in their lives. That's a really tough obstacle to overcome.
I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.
I didn't have a dad around to pick me up when I fell, throw the ball to me outside. I always wonder how it would be if I did have a dad there.
The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.
Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.
I never thought of my father when I was growing up. Truly. He was a strong, silent man who worked hard to support his family.
My childhood was defined by my father's absence. His presence looms so large. Up until the age of 18, he was a superstar for me.
My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.
I grew up without a father figure.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
I know that my dad not being in my life made a huge impact on me.
The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.
