Ashley Roberts Quotes

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.

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little prison for me.

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.

I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on.

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

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.

My parents separated when I was younger.

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.

My mom and dad got divorced, so it was one of those things where Sundays I'd go to Dad's apartment, and this was, say, 1970-whatever, and it had a pool table on the top floor in a very traditional kind of divorced-dad apartment building.

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a lot of friends who did.

My parents had a difficult divorce.

Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.

A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

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.

My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My husband was in love with someone else.

I was barely 17 when our father decided to part ways with my mother.

Divorce, splitting up a family, is a terrible thing.

But as a kid you take it very personally when your parents divorce.

I can understand a family that's imploding. I have experience of that in my own life.

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

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