Warren Farrell Quotes

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.

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

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.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

My parents divorced when I was 18 months old. They haven't always been the best of friends, but they were good at keeping that stuff away from me.

Divorce is something I think that children feel particularly hard and what's sad about a lot of divorces, and certainly about my divorce, is that absent fathers who really want to play a part in their children's lives but don't live there, they have a pretty tough time.

Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.

I would like to devote myself to the cause of parental alienation.

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

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

My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

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

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 was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

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

My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Many states favor joint custody.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

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.