Betty Hill Quotes

I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.

My kids have a great dad. I don't really want them to have a stepfather, and I don't think they do, either.

I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

I've got one young family by the first wife, with four children.

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.

Every break-up is unique. But when there are children involved you don't know where to turn.

I live in a house in a forest about 20 minutes out of Copenhagen, with my actress wife Rikke and my four children - my son Louis, 20, from a previous relationship, and our three: Charlie, ten, Miles, eight, and Nomi, six.

What has changed for me is that I now have a huge family [Lightfoot has four children, from his first two marriages] - the result of my living.

Divorce is very difficult, especially on the kids. Of course, I'm the result of my parents having stayed together, so you never know.

I'll say - I have four kids! I married a woman when I was 24 years old. She was 13 years my senior. She had been married twice before. I adopted them. I was 24 and had a 17-year-old son instantly, an 11-year-old daughter, a 5-year-old, and a child on the way. So I had to learn how to become a parent very quickly.

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

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.

I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

I've got five kids and I'm married, Tommy's got two kids and he's been married, Vince just got married again, Mick's out of a relationship, Tommy's single as well. We've done a lot in our life, we've covered a lot of miles.

I've got two families.

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

My parents divorced after 25 years of marriage.

My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

We've all been affected by divorce in one way or another, whether we've experienced it personally, or witnessed family or friends go through it.