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My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

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

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.

One of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.

People get that dads have a place in the lives of their sons. But you have to be just as present with daughters, maybe even more so. You have to get in there and be part of the game.

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.