Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.
You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.
My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.
My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.'
A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood.
Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and they all had pugs.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.
My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.
It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.
The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.
