Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

A lot of people think I grew up with just my brother and me, but mom was there even when she wasn't. We had a good household.

Every single kid in my group of friends at school was from a single-parent family.

I had a working mother. She worked for IBM. My dad lived in another town - not very far away, but another town. So food was - I guess food was my friend.

It is tough that a lot of kids have single-family homes.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

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.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

When I was growing up, my father was naturally a very busy man and was not around for long periods of time. Despite that he was always emotionally with me.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

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.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

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

Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women end up bearing the entire load, raising kids alone without a husband to share the parenting.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I maybe missed money in my childhood, but I didn't miss love, that's for sure. My dad wasn't there, but I can tell you not even once did I think I was missing something.

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.