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I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want to be there for them no matter what.

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

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.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly in a different environment with a different father.