Jane Leavy Quotes

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

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

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

My children range in age from 5 to 31. We adopted the 5-year-old, but people are often impressed with my wife before knowing that.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

My parents got married when I was 12.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

I have six siblings but grew up an only child. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle.

My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

My mother Tessa married my stepfather, James, when I was three and we lived in Boston for a year.

I married my wife and she brought these two amazing kids into my life, and we were realizing, God there's nothing out there in fiction about blended families.

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

I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband, died when I was four years old. So I only had my mum and sister, really.

I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

Patrick Wilson is my brother-in-law - we married sisters.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.