Seal Quotes

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

If something's not right, I don't believe in maintaining something for the sake of what's considered a traditional family, because I believe that there are different ways to raise children. It's far more effective to raise children in happy homes.

All I care about are my children and that they are brought up properly and that they don't try to play their dad and mom against each other because they know we don't get along.

My dad being not the greatest dad in the world has made me a better parent.

I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.

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 didn't come from a background where I saw a lot of loving couples. All my aunts and uncles were either split up or fighting all the time. The only healthy relationships I saw were on TV.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

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.

I hope we have a whole lot of healthy men out there impacting their wives and daughters with a sense of value and dignity. They can have a huge impact. It takes a secure man to breed that sense of security in his family.

As a kid, there was not much I could do to stop the violence in our home. When I got older, as a father, I did everything I could to raise my children with a father that loved them, protected them, and made them feel safe.

I think I am a better son than a husband.

I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

I'm one of seven kids, and I love being around a bunch of siblings because I think it teaches you independence, and it teaches you how to grow up quickly and also just be a good friend and be a good sister.

When I was growing up, I never saw couples fight on the family sitcoms I loved to watch. Subsequently, when tough times arose in my own relationship, I wasn't prepared and felt so isolated and alone. Marital issues weren't a part of the narrative that television told me was a 'working relationship.'

I never discuss my troubles in a relationship. It's best to just keep those thoughts to yourself.

If we would have had clear brains to take a break, instead of breaking up, we would have left room for balance in our lives.

There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Physical violence was never an option for men or women in my family.

We've got to focus and make sure that we're great parents.

I think that the idea of wanting to fight for your kids, but also knowing that your wife is probably better at it, is something that rings very true for me.

The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so I knew I wanted to make a change.

A loving family matters. So do male role models.

I've never seen my dad come home from work and not walk straight to my mom and ask her about her day.