From Tyler's blog
"The Struggle With My Dad
MARCH 15, 2016
"... My parents divorced when I was young, and he moved back to his home state of Arizona. I lived with my mother, who had remarried, and therefore didn’t see him often. As I grew up, I always got excited for summertime, because that is when my sister and I would get to fly down to see him for a few weeks while on break from school. It was always a magical time for us, as he spoiled us rotten. Looking back now, I think he felt bad he couldn’t see us all the time, and always tried to squeeze everything he could into those few weeks. So naturally we only did fun stuff, and there were very little rules. Every summer was an adventure, and the memories will always be close..."
http://gardnerquadsquad.com/the-struggle-with-my-dad/
It's my belief that this is the crux of a great deal of the Bison's major issues. He thinks that he dad spoiled him and gave him no rules because he loved him and in reality it was because his dad refused to "see" him and his sister - and to see him I mean to see what his true needs were and meet those needs. I think his dad was oblivious of them and they say that that is sometimes worse than being hated and abused; its an abandonment and a neglect of a different variety. Tyabetes believes that being given everything and never being told 'no' means that he is loved; and in his mind he believes that this is what he is giving the tater tots. But really it is just a second hand abandonment and neglect he is passing in to them. I think on some level that the Waddler recognizes that his dad did not show up for him and his mother was also preoccupied with her next husband and all 8 of Buttbacks other siblings (whom he competes with and tries to control so as to pretend that he is the older brother looking out for them but they resent the hell out of him) but in reality he is enraged with his dad and his mom; refuses to acknowledge it; so he passively aggressively carries it around and it erupts into road rage and seething anger of which he has very little clue of the origin on. I suspect he went to college to study counseling to try to understand himself on some level; that he got very little therapy for his childhood wounds because he was lost in the shuffle. Which is kind of sad but its no excuse there are a great many wounded children out in the world who have to learn to give their children what they never got - and thereby parenting himself at the same time so they can heal.
That's my theory on why he refuses to parent his children and refuses to grow up.