Philippe Cousteau Jr. Quotes

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.

I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I got to be about 16 or so. My mom was a flight attendant for PanAm, so I moved all over the world. London, Rio de Janeiro.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded.

I grew up with my mom; it was just the two of us.

I was raised mostly by my mom.

My dad left home when I was super young, so it was my mum bringing me and my brother up.

My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

I grew up in St Louis, just with my mom.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

It's so crazy: my mom and dad divorced when I was 11, and my fondest memories are in the Philippines and being raised by my mom. It's such a big part of my life.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

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.

My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast, visiting my father in Los Angeles during holidays. When your parents are divorced, you don't know anything else, do you?

I grew up in a town without fathers.

I find families intriguing, perhaps because I did not grow up in one. I was raised by a feminist, independent, single mother, a divorcee.

I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey.

Womenfolk raised me, and I was full-grown before I knew I came from a broken home.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.