Michael Douglas Quotes

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I grew up with great relationships with my stepparents.

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 have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

I was lucky to have a great dad.

I had a tough childhood after my father died when I was five, and I had a very difficult stepfather. I want to give my children what I didn't have - a good role model.

I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

My role model is my dad.

I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.

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.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

Meanwhile I married and I adopted three kids who were all from one family and then later I was divorced.

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.

Now I can look back and say I actually like the upbringing I had and my father was very attentive and a great educator.

As a parent I provide all I can, but I think in the best possible scenario you need to have a man.

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

My stepfather and my mother, I love them to death.

I'm not ready to get married, but I have a pretty great family and I'd like that too, someday.

I was the one in charge of the kids growing up.

I never had that wicked stepmother or evil stepfather thing at all. I'm very close to both step-parents and I consider them to be my parents, too.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.