From Wikipedia:
Carlson was born in San Francisco, California. His great-great grandfather Cesar Lombardi immigrated to New York from Switzerland in 1860.[14] He is the elder son of Richard Warner Carlson, a former "gonzo reporter"[15] who became the director of the Voice of America, president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the U.S. ambassador to the Seychelles.[16] Carlson's paternal grandparents were Richard Boynton and Dorothy Anderson, teenagers who placed his father in an orphanage where he was adopted when he was two years old by the Carlsons. Richard Carlson's adoptive father was a wool broker.[17][15][18]
Carlson's mother was artist Lisa McNear (née Lombardi). He also has a brother, Buckley Peck Carlson (later, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson), who is nearly two years younger.[19]
In 1976, Carlson's parents divorced after the nine-year marriage reportedly "turned sour."[19][20] Carlson's father was granted custody of Tucker and his brother. Carlson's mother left the family when he was six, wanting to pursue a "bohemian" lifestyle.[16][21][22]
Dick Carlson was said to be an active father who had a specific outlook in raising his sons:
I want them to be self-disciplined to the degree that I think is necessary to find satisfaction ... you measure a person on how far they go, on how far they've sprung. My parents, the Carlsons, they instilled a modesty in me that, at times, gets in my way ... I know it's immodest of me to say it, but it's difficult sometimes when you want to beat your own drum and say what you really think.
In 1979, Carlson's father married divorcée Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises. Swanson is the daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and the niece of Senator J. William Fulbright.[16][23]
When Carlson was in first grade, his father moved Tucker and his brother to La Jolla, California, and raised them there.[24][25] In La Jolla, Carlson attended La Jolla Country Day School and grew up in a home overlooking the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club.[26] His father owned property in Nevada, Vermont, and islands in Maine and Nova Scotia.[26][15]
Carlson was briefly enrolled at Collège du Léman, a boarding school in Switzerland, but says he was "kicked out".[27] He attained his secondary education at St. George's School, a boarding school in Middletown, Rhode Island. He then went to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he graduated in 1991 with a BA in history.[16] After college, Carlson tried to join the Central Intelligence Agency, but his application was denied, after which he decided to pursue a career in journalism with the encouragement of his father.[28][16]
If you have to read additional material to understand what the heck you're talking about, please excerpt it in your post.
But yeah, Tucker had a weird and privileged childhood.
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