Elizabeth Rodriguez Quotes

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

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.

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 was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

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

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

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

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

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.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

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 didn't have a father figure in the house.

I grew up in Southampton. My mum was a shop assistant; my dad was a carpenter. They broke up when I was eight.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

Man, I grew up like everybody else. Middle-low income family. My parents got divorced like most of the rest of the country.

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.