Abbie Cornish Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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 isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

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.

That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.

My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I didn't see Dad all that often after that - four or five times a year.

My parents were divorced when I was 2, so I don't remember much about them being together.

Nick spent his first years on walks in his stroller and Snugli, playing in Berkeley parks and baby gyms and visiting zoos and aquariums. His mother and I divorced when he was 4. No child benefits from the bitterness and savagery of a divorce like ours.

My parents divorced when I was 18 months old. They haven't always been the best of friends, but they were good at keeping that stuff away from me.

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

I get sick of that old rationalization, "We're staying together because of the children." Kids couldn't be more miserable living with parents who can't stand each other. They're far better off if there's an honest, clean divorce.

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

I was alone a lot as a kid, because my parents were divorced.

My parents separated when I was eight. I grew up with my mom alone.

It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.

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.

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

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.