Justin Trudeau Quotes

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

My parents separated when I was younger.

I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.

I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.

The word 'divorce' wasn't foreign to me. As a child of the 1970s, I grew up as part of a generation of kids whose parents got divorced, and it wasn't seen as this terrible thing. Maybe that's why I believed what my father told me and Reina that day: that everything would be okay. But it wasn't.

Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

When I was a little girl, my family was extremely close, loving and really happy, and then overnight, things just became a nightmare, and instead of them becoming a nightmare and getting better, they became a nightmare and just kept getting worse.

I grew up in a little bit of a broken home.

I grew up in a broken home.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family.

I couldn't think of anything worse than being in an unhappy marriage. It worries me because I've seen it destroy people.

I was so tiny when my parents split up that I can't remember them ever being together. That was never an issue, as I guess I never went through the trauma of them splitting up.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

When two people break up, it's all about them; they can't see anyone else. And the people getting smashed to bits are the kids. Then you're getting torn - your mum wants you, your dad wants you. You just get shredded. It has a long-lasting effect as well.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.

Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.