A Top 30 List of Absent Parents Quotes

Absent Parents Quotes – Everyone has different types of parents and families. We all have our stories and perspectives of our parent figures. The sad truth, however, is that not all of them are positive. There are parents in the world that do not treat their children as they should. In some cases, there are parents who do not involve themselves in their child’s life. Whether it’s an absent father, mother, or both, it causes an impact on a child. There are plenty of insightful thoughts on the subject and these are a few interesting Absent Parents Quotes that provide a perspective:

• “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.”
  – Barbara Johnson
  
• “Children feel let down and becomes hopeless when parents leave them alone.”
  
• “You need to spend time with your children to be remembered.”
  
• “It’s mystifying how parents can be absent during your growing years, waltz back into your life when you’re an adult, and expect to be welcomed with open arms.”
  
• “The hardest thing you’ll ever do is comfort a crying child when their other parent doesn’t come see them.”
  
• “Growing up, it seemed the class was divided in two. Those who had their parents. And those who had a missing dad or mom.”
  
• “The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.”
  – Benjamin Franklin
  
• “One day you’ll be alone and regret not being there. You’ll regret the birthdays and holidays missed. You’ll regret not watching her grow up and being in her life you’ll regret everything and by than it will be too late.”
  
• “By ignoring her, you are actually teaching her to live without you.”
  
• “Your presence doesn’t matter if your absence doesn’t have any impact.“
  

Quotes About Absent Father

• “There’s nothing worse than a man that can be everything to everybody else…except a father to their own child.”
  
• “An absent father needs to realize his child’s needs before it is very late ”
  
• “When your father is not present, believe in yourself”
  
• “When you grew up with an absent father, you grew up dreaming and wanting. But most of all, you grew up way too fast.”
  
• “However busy a father is, he will find time for his child.”
  
• “No matter how old you get. The hole in your heart created by your father’s absence still aches. Especially on father’s day.”
  
• “Absent fathers, act before it is too late.”
  
• “Father take note! Children will always remember the man who treated them with love and affection! Don’t be an absent father!”
  – Abu Muawiyah Ismail Kamdar
  
• “Don’t forgive him. Forgive yourself for believing there is something lacking in you because he wasn’t there.”
  – Iyanla Vanzant
  
• “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
  

Other Absent Parents Quotes

• “I don’t want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?”
  – Indira Varma
  
• “It’s a sin if you are a father, but are not around to support your children”
  
• “If your children are important to you, you will always find a way. If not, you’ll always find an excuse.”
  
• “There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn’t describe me. There was something empty in me that in other people was full.”
  – Julie Schumacher
  
• “Hey “dad” I did it without you.”
  
• “You make sacrifices for your children so they can enjoy the life they deserve.”
  
• “Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children’s feelings in a way biologic orphans are spared.”
  – Eileen Simpson
  
• “An absent father is like a ghost that lives in the back of your mind.”
  
• “To feel that you aren’t important to your mother leaves a hole. Most often it is felt as a hole in the heart. It’s the hole where Mother was supposed to be.”
  – Jasmin Lee Cori
  
• “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

Check out more quotes about less-than-great parents and family with our “Two-Faced Fake Family Quotes” and “Unsupportive Family Quotes.”