LZ Granderson Quotes

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

I remember my daughter coming back from school one day and saying that the teacher had asked anybody whose parents were divorced to put their hands up. I felt angry but also guilty. And you feel sort of terribly responsible in that sort of situation.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced - though I was adult - but I still grappled with being responsible to both of them.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

I was married for nine years before my husband and I separated and eventually divorced. Just as I'd watched my parents arguing and fighting, my son watched his parents arguing and fighting. It was like history repeating itself, and I felt terrible about him having to witness that.

Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

Having a child is difficult enough already, bringing with it a whole range of wonderful challenges, and we shouldn't be trying to guilt parents into 'there is just one way to do it'.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.