Louis de Bernieres Quotes

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

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

Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.

The credit of my good upbringing goes to my mother, who's not only been a single parent to my brother and I, but she's also been 'our' manager for the longest time. Our father, on the other hand, remained elusive and away from the family for most part of our lives, which left a certain void but also made us creative and reflective.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Abdicated.

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.

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.

Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems.

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

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

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

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.

There wasn't a kid in my neighborhood who knew his dad. My mother did it for us, and she still thinks I'm an underachiever.

My father had to play the role of mother and father.

The majority of fathers that I saw when I was growing up in Vancouver didn't take the responsibility to look after their kids, and I was aware that society is geared towards punishing single women.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

Children are raised by single parents all the time. Those children - I'd like to claim myself as one, I was raised by a single mother who raised me incredibly well.

It's interesting as a mom to reflect on your own parenting skills. The core of our beliefs may stay the same, but our perspective changes over the years and evolves with each child that comes through us.

Fatherhood is something that is personal to me because I didn't grow up around my father.

I always wonder what my life would be like if I had parents like the other kids who went to my high school.

I was actually very fortunate. I think I was actually the only kid in my class at one stage that actually had a father in the home.

How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home-and how apparent when neglected!