Husband and father Quote by Robert A. Bradley

“His wives had discovered early on what a poor or frightening prospect of a father he presented and they had protected themselves and got…

— Ian McEwan

Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things.

— Oliver Hudson

“Unlike men writers who marry, most will not have the societal equivalent of a wife-- nor (in a society hostile to growing life) anyone…

— Tillie Olsen

“For every guy who loves being a dad, there’s another who realizes too late that he’s created something his wife loves more than him.”

— Mark R. Brand

“The child-man, then, is the lost son of a host of economic and cultural changes: the demographic shift I call preadulthood, the Playboy philosophy,…

— Kay Hymowitz

“The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to give themselves…

— Srini Chandra

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it.

— Steve Farrar

Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.

— Loretta Lynn

“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“in our present state of society woman possesses not; she is under possession,” referring to laws that barred married women from owning or inheriting…

— Megan Marshall

To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The…

— David Blankenhorn