Faith Ford Quotes

People shouldn't stay married because of the kids. That's torture for everyone.

There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.

I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.

My mum and dad got divorced when I was nine and my brother was seven, and all they strived to do was to make sure we weren't affected.

We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children's problems, you know, and our own problems. But some days it's fine, and then some days we just are at each other's throat.

I'm still friends with all my exes, apart from my husbands.

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary deal about marriages. That's one of the things that makes it stressful, and that's something that's nonexistent in a parent-child relationship.

As a parent, I can empathize with how difficult raising children can be. There are challenges, especially within the framework of divorce, when parental guilt can sometimes blur what should be the best decision.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

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

Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

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. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

When Rose McDermott, a professor of political science at Brown University, got divorced two years ago, she noticed that a cluster of her friends were splitting up at around the same time.

She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.

It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.