Though the father's description is only briefly detailed, you can make a lot of conclusions by just focusing on Chris.
What we get as far as the father is a man who is very driven, business savvy, worldly, educated, and also...a womanizer. Chris and his sister were born before their dad had divorced his first wife, and there are also children from that previous marriage. This would place Chris somewhere in the middle of a blended family that was already on the verge of yet another divorce: His parent's.
We also know that his father, compared to Chris, was more motivated by financial status than Chris would have ever been. I believe that, from the dynamics in the home you can tell how different Chris turned out.
About Chris, we know that he graduated college, his family was quite affluent, and he may have even been spoiled a bit which is what many dysfunctional families with extra money do to compensate for the lack of family support.
He then did a transformation where he decided to donate his money to Oxfam, and basically took a quasi-vow of simplicity and minimalism through the exploration of the wilderness. In other words, perhaps the turbulence at home provoked in him a desire to find peace, alone.
We also know that Chris was aware of his fathers womanizing ways, which also gives us an insight cue of how his overall opinion of his father was. Therefore, for a man to want for peace and loneliness so badly is indicative that his mind and soul also needed such peace.
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