Paula Danziger Quotes

My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.

I know what "custody" [of the children] means. "Get even." That's all custody means. Get even with your old lady.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

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

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.

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

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.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Eddie and I have decided to take some time apart. I want to do what is best for our children.

Divorce, splitting up a family, is a terrible thing.

My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.

Michael and I will always be connected with the kids. I will always be there for him. I will always be there for the children. And people make remarks: 'I can't believe she left her children.' Left them? I left my children? I did not leave my children. My children are with their father, where they are supposed to be.

When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

My parents separated when I was younger.

Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to give the children the semblance of having whole lives.

Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.