I went looking for the boys, who were eight and nine at the time. I demanded, starting to get a little impatient. And we're not giving them back 'til you promise to spend some time with us. But I got the message. Family time is something we all say we value, but few experience.
Surveys show that most families rate time together a number one priority.
However, the same surveys show that fathers spend only a few minutes a day with their children. Most saw their father only at the dinner table. A number didn't see their fathers for days at a time. The average time father and son were alone together was seven and one-half minutes a week. The problem with this argument is that quality time cannot exist apart from quantities of time.