Maureen Forrester Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.

Women have been such an important part of my life. I try, every day, to be a better father to my daughters and a better husband.

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

Even when people don't stay married, they can still be a family together. That's been something that's been really good for developing me as a person. It's been a very positive learning experience.

Every break-up is unique. But when there are children involved you don't know where to turn.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

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

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.

The Lord has been there from wanting to be a momma, to having a wonderful childhood life and dreaming of having a good motherhood as a child; always wanting to meet a good old country boy and having someone to love as much as I love my husband Roland and having a little boy that is a mixture of the both of us.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.

I have a wonderful marriage and two great kids.

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