Jeremy Kyle Quotes

I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.

I came from a broken family.

My childhood was bad. No father. Mother was greedy and brought me up awful - never made me breakfast once. I don't want to get started. One story is worse than another.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

I was an abused kid.

When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

I was born out of wedlock. Nobody brought me up.

My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

I lived in Complexo do Alemao until I was 12, dealt with domestic violence in my childhood and faced difficulties in life.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

I grew up in a broken home. My dad was out of the home when I was five years old. I never knew him very well.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.

If we are to save our children then we must become people they will look up to. Children need heroes now more than ever because the poor children of this nation live with monsters every day. Monsters deprive them of heat in the winter, they don't fix their sinks and toilets, they let garbage pile up in their hallways, they kick them out of their homes, they beat them, shoot them, stab them-sometimes to death-they rape their bodies and their minds. Sometimes they lurk under the stairs. They scuttle around in the dark; you hear them in the walls gnawing, squeaking, occasionally biting a little finger.