Thomas Kinkade Quotes

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

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

My parents are separated. My father left when I was six years old.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

My parents separated when I was younger.

I was just a kid and I didn't have a dad. That's hard, because when you're a kid, you blame yourself for everything. And I blamed myself for him not being around, for my parents not being together.

The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there at five years old, with my older sister and younger brother, I knew that he was gone.

I grew up in a broken home.

I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

Actually, my parents were separated by the time I was about 2 years old.

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.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

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

My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

I grew up in a town without fathers.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Everything was an escape for me when I was younger. I had a tumultuous home life thanks to the unsavoury characters my mom would marry. My brother just sort of evaded, and my dad lived far away, so I was left alone.