Laila Rouass Quotes

There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energy away from me. It was always in the back of my mind that I had to do it, and I couldn't count on anybody. There was no one around to pay for me to get through life.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

When I heard 'Rockabye,' I was just blown away. It had been a long time since I had heard a song that had a message like that in it - about being a single parent and caring for your child.

I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad came into the picture.

It is very tough to bring up a child on your own.

I'm an only child. My mother was raising me alone. We couldn't afford child care; child care hours didn't work according to her schedule.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard.

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.