Bridget Moynahan Quotes

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

I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she, by any means necessary, gave me the best opportunities that she knew how to give me.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

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

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom.

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

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

It has been tough being a mother of two daughters without a co-parent because I think I was a child myself, as my mother was.

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

I had what you could call a chaotic childhood. My parents divorced when I was 2; I went back and forth between my mom's and dad's houses for years. But, you know, my parents tried to do the right thing. As crazy as everything was, and as much fighting and everything, there was always a feeling of support from them.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive.

Why is it braver to be a single mother versus being with a partner? Being in a couple and having a child could be more challenging because there might be conflict if the male partner cannot understand the extreme attachment a woman feels when she has a child.

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.

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

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.

I was raised by a single mom. I spent most of my time in daycare.

My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

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.