Children with absent fathers often grow up with a huge void in their lives. They feel as if something is missing, especially when other children with both parents seem to have a different life.
Due to a lack of a support system, these children often fall prey to behavioral issues such as stress and depression. Try to be more sensitive to your child and shower them with the love and affection they deserve. To drive home the importance of a father’s role in the upbringing of children, we’ve compiled several absent father quotes that will inspire you to become a better dad.
32 Touching and Inspiring Absent Father Quotes
1.“To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” – Barbara Johnson
2.“The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.” – Benjamin Franklin
3.“The heart may think it knows better, the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.” – Elizabeth Bowen
4.“Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.” – Geoffrey Canada
5.“Fathers have a unique and irreplaceable role in the lives of children.” – George W. Bush
6.“We know that children who grow up with absent fathers can suffer lasting damage. They are more likely to end up in poverty or drop out of school, become addicted to drugs, have a child out of wedlock, or end up in prison. Fatherlessness is not the only cause of these things, but our nation must recognize it is an important factor.” – George W. Bush
7.“My father being mostly absent on duty, my mother suffered me to do as much as I pleased.” – John James Audubon
8.“I come from the school of thought where a dad’s absence is something to be counted on. Now I see all the men with camouflage diaper bags and babies hanging from their chests like little ship figureheads.” – Kaui Hart Hemmings
9.“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” – Kent Nerburn
10.“A bad father has never a good son.” – Latin Proverb
“He didn’t want to be an absentee father. He didn’t want to be like his own father, who thought being a provider was his only obligation to his family.” – Maya Banks
11.“Frequently, I go to conferences and listen to speakers decry the absent father as somehow a new phenomenon. Though their recriminations against absent or emotionally distant fathers are generally meant to help society, at the same time they are built on a lie that evolution disproves generation after generation. Fathers have often gone to war, or the long hunt on the Savannah, or to work in another village or city. But only in the last decade or so have manhood and fathering been trashed completely.” – Michael Gurian
12.“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.” – Robert Bly
13.“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud
14.“The psychological absence of fathers can be nearly as devastating as physical absence. When fathers are alive but not a predictable presence actively participating in their daughter’s lives the relationship becomes a permanent maybe.” – Victoria Secunda
15.“A father may turn his back on his child, but a mother’s love endures through all.” – Washington Irving
16.“Fathers, you are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.”– Anita R. Sneed-Carter
17.“I’m there for my son 24/7, because I don’t want him to take the road we took. I believe if I had a father around, I would’ve learned plenty of things. There was no father there to tell me look here son, this is the wrong way to go. When we were coming up, we learned through trial and error. Anthony ‘Ada’ Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders street gang.” – Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
18. “I came from as low as one could come, with no mother and no father. So in return, I build a family for myself and these fella’s were a part of my family. So I had to look out for them, as if I was looking out for my children. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members” – Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
19.“I didn’t have any father to reach out to me. The persons who tried to steer me in the right direction were the persons on the street and I still went the wrong way. Franco ‘Co’ Bethel, former gang leader and right-hand man to Scrooge.” – Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father
20.“Many of us might have grown up in a house that lacked love, or even without parental supervision. The parents left you on your own and because of that you missed out on the true form of LOVE.The love you never received as a child, a daughter, or you didn’t get it from your father; he might have been absent from your entire upbringing.” – Chimnese Davids, Redeeming Soul
21.“I’ve only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that’s interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I’ve always been in relationships where there’s separation.” – Patsy Kensit
22.“He didn’t want to be an absentee father. He didn’t want to be like his own father, who thought being a provider was his only obligation to his family. There was a hell of a lot more to parenthood than providing all the material necessities. Rafael wanted to be there for all the school plays, the soccer games. He wanted to be the one to put money under his kid’s pillow when he lost a tooth and pretend that it was the tooth fairy. He wanted to be a father. The best father he could be.” – Maya Banks
23.“Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child’s life — the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you’ll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.” – Jeff Greenfield
24.“Just because your father’s present doesn’t mean he isn’t absent.” – Elizabeth Acevedo
25.“I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time.” – Hugh Hefner
26.“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.” – Kent Nerburn
27.“Respect to all moms doing double duty because of men failing to do their part as dads.” – John Mark Green
28.“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” – William Shakespeare
29.“Why do people marry versions of their controlling mothers? Or absent fathers? To have a shot at righting old wrongs.” – Blake Crouch (Dark Matter)
30.“…the father figure was perhaps physically, and definitely emotionally, absent when the boy was in his latency phase. As a boy, therefore, the serial killer had no positive father figure with whom to identify.” – Micki Pistorius (Catch me a Killer: Serial murders – a profiler’s true story)
31.“For example, many men are convinced it is somehow manly to produce children yet unmanly to take responsibility for them. This is why there are American households teeming with children but absent a father.” – Stephen Mansfield (Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self)
32.“This world makes excuses for fathers who lack interest in the lives of their kids. The same world crucifies mothers who dedicate resources and attention to their kids. It’s weird.” – Mitta Xinindlu
The Best YouTube Video on Absent Fathers
Fatherlessness impacts every area of a person’s life; says Kent Ballard, Jr., a seasoned educator with more than 17 years of experience in various sectors, especially the industry of education. He has been recognized for demonstrating a natural aptitude for promoting student achievement and growth.
Summary
Fathers play a pivotal role in the lives of their children and it is expected of them to do more than just provide resources. Many philosophers and great thinkers agree absent fathers do long-term damage to their communities in the long run because of the harm it does to their child’s upbringing.
If you have a child or are expecting to have one in the near future, try to be a better parent. And if you had an absent father, you can fill the void by leading a constructive life and helping others. If you ever decide to have children of your own, make sure to become their support systems – financially, socially, psychologically, and emotionally.
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