Karen Handel Quotes

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

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

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

My parents got divorced, and they both remarried other people.

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.

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father committed to one another, living together, and sharing the responsibility of raising their children.

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

I have kids. No more wives.

I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

Unfortunately, it's the new normal to get divorced - and divorced with children is its own soil rich with land mines. There's a lot of comedy but a lot of heartache, too.

I live in a house in a forest about 20 minutes out of Copenhagen, with my actress wife Rikke and my four children - my son Louis, 20, from a previous relationship, and our three: Charlie, ten, Miles, eight, and Nomi, six.

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

I don't care what anyone says, but all children prefer their parents to be together.

Step-parenting and being a step-sibling presents a lot of exciting opportunities. When families break up and re-form, there may be less order, less certainty, and a bit more trauma involved, but kids can end up having half-a-dozen parent figures.

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.

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