Terri Blackstock Quotes

I never worried about raising a kid on my own.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I would never say out loud that I am raising my children alone, but a lot of the time it has felt like that.

To all you mothers out there who are raising your children alone either by choice or necessity, don't let anyone tell you you're not a family.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

I didn't plan on being a single mom, but you have to deal with the cards you are dealt the best way you can.

I felt we really couldn't be separated that much. I'd had a baby, and I was traveling and working alone while he was in the Army. It was very difficult-the phone calls and all of that. I really was very depressed.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

I feel like a semi-single mum.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

Bringing up children on my own was quite a busy time.

There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I admire my mother for being a single mum. It's ridiculously hard.

As a single parent, I had become tyrannical in order to survive, and anything I couldn't control caused me enormous anxiety. As a naturally untidy, disorganised man who never made lists or kept receipts, morphing into someone who could take care of a toddler on his own may have caused me to overcompensate a little.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I can't imagine being a single parent or a single parent that doesn't have a lot of money. That's a big, huge impact on your life and your dynamic and everything - I mean, that's huge. It affects how much you have a break from just concentrating on just one other person in your life. It becomes so myopic that way, and more intense, probably.

The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling to keep us afloat on my way to a divorce. And I knew then that I was going to have to work my way up and out of that life if I was going to give my daughter a better life and a better future, and that's what I've done.

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.