 How did Giles feel about family in the beginning?
Giles made the expected comments, smiled the proper smiles and greeted his staff by the right names, but it was purely automatic. For eighty years now, they’d been sending out the little ships that vanished at greater than the speed of light, equipped with every conceivable device to make them return automatically after taking pictures of wherever they arrived. GILES SNORTED and turned to the third frame, which showed a group picture of the family in some sort of vehicle, against the background of an alien but attractive world. The discovery that men could live practically forever had put an end to most family ties; sentiment wore thin in half a century—which wasn’t much time now, though it had once seemed long enough.
 he cared less about them as time wore on
 he cared less about them as time wore on  Harry reminded him too much of his ex-wife  he liked some of his children, but not all of them  he loved them but didn't want to travel for ninety years