My dad works in child protection and he's spent many, many years in that line of work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dad worked for child protection.
My father worked all the time.
I did criminal defense work part-time, and that paid the bills for representing abused and neglected children... and for defending in juvenile court those kids the 'child protective system' had missed when it had the chance.
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!
I'm a parent, especially when you've had the intense parenting the way I had. It's all in the bank. It's all in the great experience bank. Those are your secrets. That's the stuff that makes your work rich, that's what you dip into.
As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.
My father was a security guard. I was a security guard.
My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
It's a hard call, but I've no desire to live my children's lives. I think my job as a father is to protect them, to allow them a safe place to grow up and to teach them what I've learned.