Rebecca Stead Quotes

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

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

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 mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when I was about 7. My mother was about 25, my stepfather was about 26, I'm six or seven, I was looking at them and I knew they were just too young.

My parents got divorced when I was 2, so I have this weird thing where I have 8 brothers and sisters, but I am also an only child.

My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us. I have four sisters and one brother. I'm the baby.

My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes of their parents. I spent the school year with my mother, and the summers with my dad.

I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried.

I had a pretty rough childhood. I was raised for a few years by my single mom, until she married my stepdad a little later.

I'm an only child. My mum and dad are six in each family. They're both twins, and they only wanted one. I always say to them though that they're lucky - it could have all gone wrong.

It must be weird having one child.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

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.

I grew up as an only child.

The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

I definitely have a family. I have a boyfriend who has kids, and we do normal things every day, like get up and go to school. Eat breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I grew up in Cazenovia, N.Y. I'm the second of five children, with three sisters and a brother.

I was raised by a single mother.

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.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

I was by far the youngest of the family, and at times it was like being an only child.